AWS on November 10, 2026 announced the general availability of a Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, its platform for building and running AI agents. Applications can now search the web with a single call to the new InvokeWebSearch API. Until now, web search on AgentCore was available only as an MCP tool through AgentCore Gateway.
The API returns ranked results from an Amazon-operated web index. Each result includes a text extract and, when available, a title, URL and publication time. Requests can be filtered by domain and by publication time.
Pricing is $7 per 1,000 queries, the same rate as web search through AgentCore Gateway, with no gateway charges. The API is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Ireland).
Access is through the AWS SDKs or CLI with IAM authorization. Calls can stay on private networks through AWS PrivateLink and are logged as AWS CloudTrail data events. AWS also published a tutorial that uses the API with LangGraph to build a daily dependency-watcher agent.
For teams building agents on AWS, the change means web grounding no longer requires setting up a gateway. Search runs on infrastructure AWS operates, under the same IAM and logging controls as the rest of an AWS deployment.