AWS Announces General Availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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- announced general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
What happened
AWS announced the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a managed Gateway tool that returns synthesized answers with citations from current web sources. The post compares it with Web Search, which returns ranked results for an agent’s own model to process, and walks through adding Web Answer to a Gateway and calling it from a Strands agent. It is available in us-east-1 and costs $10 per 1,000 tool calls.
Why it matters
Web Answer combines web retrieval, answer synthesis, and citations in one AgentCore tool call, while the comparison with Web Search clarifies when builders may want raw results instead.
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AWS has made Web Answer generally available on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, where the managed Gateway tool returns synthesized answers with citations from current web sources. It is available in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) for $10 per 1,000 tool calls, with a limit of 10 transactions per second per account in that region. Web Answer differs from Web Search, which returns ranked results for an agent’s model to process. AWS describes how to add Web Answer to a Gateway and call it from a Strands agent.
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