Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Adds Managed Knowledge Bases for RAG

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added managed knowledge bases for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to its Bedrock AgentCore service, allowing users to connect data sources such as S3, Confluence, SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, or a web crawler to a fully managed retrieval pipeline in three API calls. The feature eliminates the need to provision vector stores, write connectors, configure hybrid search, or build CloudWatch dashboards from scratch.

Building RAG for production has always punished teams that underestimate the ops surface area. There’s a vector store to provision, a connector to write for every enterprise data source, hybrid search to configure, a re-ranker to bolt on, ACLs to enforce at query time, and a CloudWatch dashboard to build from scratch. AWS just absorbed all of that into a single managed service inside AgentCore. If you’re on the AgentCore stack, you can now connect S3, Confluence, SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, or a web crawler to a fully managed retrieval pipeline in three API calls — and never touch a … The post