AWS Adds Direct Web Search API for Custom Agents and Data Pipelines

Amazon Web Services announced a standalone Web Search API for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on November 11, 2026, letting applications retrieve ranked web results with one signed call and no gateway to create. AWS bills searches at $7 per 1,000 queries, with the API designed for custom agents, data pipelines and existing applications. Before this launch, Web Search on AgentCore was delivered through AgentCore Gateway, which required a gateway, a web search target and a Model Context Protocol (MCP)...