Bedrock Agents
AWS's managed agent service inside Amazon Bedrock — provides agent orchestration, tool integration via OpenAPI/Lambda, and a knowledge-base layer for RAG out of the box.
Bedrock Agents is AWS's answer to "I want agents in my VPC with my SSO and my compliance posture." You define an agent in the console or via CDK, attach tools (OpenAPI schemas backed by Lambdas), point it at a Bedrock Knowledge Base, and AWS runs the loop.
The trade-off is the AWS-stack lock-in: you get IAM, CloudWatch, KMS encryption, and PrivateLink for free, but you also accept Bedrock's model menu and orchestration choices. Multi-cloud teams usually run LangGraph or Agents SDK in containers instead.
In 2026, Bedrock Agents is the default in enterprise AWS shops that already standardized on Bedrock. Outside that world it competes on convenience rather than capability.
Frequently asked
Can Bedrock Agents use non-Bedrock models?+
No — the orchestration layer is tied to Bedrock-hosted models. You can call external APIs through the tool layer, but the agent loop itself runs on Bedrock.