Amazon has introduced runtime domain and published-date filtering for Web Search on its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform. This update allows developers to control which domains their AI agents can search and set date ranges for results, enhancing governance and accuracy. The new features are part of the web-search connector version 1.2.0, offering per-call control over sources and freshness of information. These capabilities are enforced server-side, eliminating the need for external orchestration. Organizations can now enforce enterprise policies while providing dynamic filtering per request, ensuring compliance and relevance in AI-driven responses.
The runtime domain filtering feature enables developers to specify include (allowlist) or exclude (denylist) lists of domains for each API call, limiting the sources an agent can consult. This gives per-request control over which information is used, ensuring that only approved domains are considered. Similarly, published-date filtering allows developers to restrict results to content published within a specific date range using ISO-8601 UTC bounds. Both filters are optional and applied per request, preserving the existing behavior when omitted. These changes provide greater flexibility for developers to tailor search results based on specific needs, such as compliance, market intelligence, or customer support scenarios.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore also expanded Web Search availability to two new AWS Regions: eu-west-1 (Dublin) and ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo). This regional expansion allows customers in Europe and Asia Pacific to invoke Web Search from endpoints closer to their workloads, reducing latency and meeting data proximity requirements for regulated environments. AgentCore uses a zero-egress architecture, ensuring search queries remain within AWS, and this regional expansion provides a path for organizations to deploy grounded agents without routing traffic across the Atlantic.
Source: awsml
