# AWS launches a standalone Web Search API on Bedrock AgentCore at $7 per 1,000 queries

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/news/aws-bedrock-agentcore-web-search-api · Evidence: Reported · First seen: 2026-11-12 00:57 UTC · Source published: 2026-11-11 23:13 UTC · Brief published: 2026-11-12 07:04 UTC · Updated: 2026-11-12 07:04 UTC · Author: Agentic Weekly

> AWS launched the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on Nov 11, 2026: a single InvokeWebSearch call that returns up to 25 ranked results from a web index Amazon operates, signed with IAM credentials and no gateway required. AWS bills it at $7 per 1,000 queries.

## What changed

- Web search on AgentCore previously required creating an AgentCore Gateway and a web search target and calling it from an MCP client; the new InvokeWebSearch operation lets your own code search with a single API call and no resources to create first, AWS says.
- Requests are signed with SigV4 from standard AWS credentials, so there is no API key, and the caller needs one IAM permission, bedrock-agentcore:InvokeWebSearch, the same action a gateway's service role uses for web search.
- Each query returns between 1 and 25 ranked results (25 by default), each with a text extract plus title, URL and publication time when available; queries can be up to 200 characters and filtered by up to 100 included or excluded domains and a publication date range.
- AWS says queries run on the same Amazon-operated index behind Alexa+, Kiro and Quick and are not sent to a third-party search engine; calls can stay off the internet through an AWS PrivateLink interface endpoint.
- Pricing is the existing Web Search rate of $7 per 1,000 queries with no gateway charges, the default quota is 10 requests per second per Region, and it launches in six Regions: N. Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Ireland, Tokyo and Sydney.
- Framework support ships in langchain-aws 1.9.3 and the AgentCore Python SDK 1.26.0, and Boto3 1.43.127 or later is needed for the Python example, according to the post.

## In the source's words

> "Queries are served inside AWS and aren’t sent to a third-party search engine."
> (AWS Machine Learning blog, Web Search API announcement, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-the-web-search-api-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/)

> "it’s billed at the Web Search rate of $7 per 1,000 queries"
> (AWS Machine Learning blog, Web Search API announcement, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-the-web-search-api-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/)

## What we have not verified

- We did not call the Web Search API; result quality, freshness and latency are untested by us.
- AWS says the index is the same one behind Alexa+, Kiro and Quick, but it publishes no index size, crawl freshness or relevance benchmark in the post.
- CloudTrail records the call but not the search text or filters, per AWS; we have not checked what else AWS retains about queries beyond the post and its acceptable use page.

## Timeline

- Source published: 2026-11-11 23:13 UTC
- First seen by our watcher: 2026-11-12 00:57 UTC (via AWS Machine Learning blog)
- Brief published: 2026-11-12 07:04 UTC

## Sources

- [AWS Machine Learning blog: Introducing the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-the-web-search-api-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore/) (primary source) (fetched 2026-11-12)

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Agentic Weekly, "AWS launches a standalone Web Search API on Bedrock AgentCore at $7 per 1,000 queries", published 2026-11-12 07:04 UTC, https://theagenticweekly.com/news/aws-bedrock-agentcore-web-search-api