Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base

This article announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed solution for building enterprise search and RAG applications grounded in enterprise data.

• Native connectors for S3, SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, OneDrive, and web crawling with real-time ACL access control
• Automatic multimodal document parsing supporting PDFs, images, audio, and video up to 10 GB
• Service-managed vector storage with auto-scaling, hybrid keyword-semantic search, and encryption
• Two retrieval APIs: simple Retrieve for direct lookups and Agentic Retrieval for multi-hop reasoning across knowledge bases
• Native AgentCore Gateway integration enabling MCP-compatible agents to discover and invoke knowledge bases automatically
• Built-in CloudWatch observability, document-level access control, and streaming trace events for full visibility
• Available in eight AWS regions with usage-based pricing consolidating storage, retrieval, and parsing costs

Managed Knowledge Base eliminates infrastructure complexity, enabling teams to focus on applications while the service handles data ingestion, storage, indexing, and intelligent retrieval at scale.