Originally published at twarx.com - read the full interactive version there. Last Updated: January 14, 2025 Your production AI agent isn't malfunctioning — it's doing exactly what you built it to do, which is the problem. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search exists because the entire first generation of enterprise AI agents was architected around a fatal assumption: that a snapshot of the world, however large, could substitute for the world itself. Definition What is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search? Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search is a first-party, AWS-managed retrieval tool that lets an AI agent query live web data at runtime instead of relying only on a pre-indexed vector store. It works by exposing search as a governed tool inside the AgentCore Runtime, so every call is scoped by IAM least-privilege permissions and logged to CloudTrail. Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog .…