SourceLaunching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock
Users can now access real-time data like live pricing while choosing whether sensitive information stays within secure AWS boundaries.
- Enables the external_web_access parameter allowing foundation models to fetch live information directly from the public web.
- Requires granting the bedrock-websearch:ExternalWebAccess IAM permission to the request identity.
- Setting external_web_access to false keeps data retrieval within the AWS boundary using Amazon's in-AWS web index and knowledge graph.
- Available in AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon).