AWS Previews Bedrock Managed Agents With OpenAI, Adds Models Up to 6x Faster
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Updated · AWS Blog · Oct 5
AWS Previews Bedrock Managed Agents With OpenAI, Adds Models Up to 6x Faster
3 articles · Updated · AWS Blog · Oct 5
Summary
AWS said Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI are now in public preview, letting customers run OpenAI-optimized agents entirely inside AWS with existing identity, permission and governance controls.
The service uses a customized, AWS-native version of OpenAI’s Agents API and offers two execution options: self-hosted compute or Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with managed sessions and configurable storage.
AWS also expanded Bedrock’s model lineup with OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol, which OpenAI says nears GPT-6 Astra at about one-fifth the cost, and GPT-6 Astra UltraFast, which promises up to 6x faster inference at 300 tokens per second.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 were added as well, broadening Bedrock’s choices for coding, browser-use and mixed-document workloads as AWS pushes deeper into agentic AI.
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