Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock

This article announces the expansion of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock with external web access capability, enabling models to retrieve current information directly from the public web.

• Enable external_web_access parameter to fetch live content from public web for real-time use cases
• Grant bedrock-websearch:ExternalWebAccess IAM permission to allow external web retrieval
• Set external_web_access to false to keep retrieval within AWS boundary for sensitive data
• Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon)
• Supports use cases requiring latest information like sports scores, live pricing, and new documentation

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock now provides flexible options for grounding model responses with either real-time web data or AWS-indexed content, depending on security and freshness requirements.