ToolsThe story, in brief
Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Amazon ships agentic retrieval for Bedrock. Multi-part questions just got smarter.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
AWS is shipping production-ready agentic capabilities into Bedrock's knowledge base layer, enabling enterprises to handle complex, multi-step retrieval tasks without building custom agent orchestration. This lowers the barrier to deployment for RAG-heavy workloads.
The key facts
5 to knowAgenticRetrieveStream API now available in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Solves multi-part question limitation of classic retrieval
Includes request construction guidance and trace parsing documentation
Alternative to standard Retrieve API for complex queries
Published July 23, 2026
Go to the source
AWS Machine Learning Blogaws.amazon.com
Publisher excerpt: This post focuses on why classic retrieval falls short on multi-part questions, how the AgenticRetrieveStream API works (including request construction and trace parsing), and when to choose it over the standard Retrieve API.