# Overview
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Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to [high-performing foundation models](models.md) from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications.

## Quickstart
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Read the [Quickstart](getting-started.md) to write your first API call using Amazon Bedrock in under five minutes.

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#### [ Responses API ]

```
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()

response = client.responses.create(
    model="openai.gpt-oss-120b",
    input="Can you explain the features of Amazon Bedrock?"
    )
print(response)
```

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#### [ Chat Completions API ]

```
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai.gpt-oss-120b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Can you explain the features of Amazon Bedrock?"}]
    )
print(response)
```

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#### [ Invoke API ]

```
import json
import boto3

client = boto3.client('bedrock-runtime', region_name='us-east-1')
response = client.invoke_model(
    modelId='anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1',
    body=json.dumps({
            'anthropic_version': 'bedrock-2023-05-31',
            'messages': [{ 'role': 'user', 'content': 'Can you explain the features of Amazon Bedrock?'}],
            'max_tokens': 1024
    })
 )
 print(json.loads(response['body'].read()))
```

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#### [ Converse API ]

```
import boto3

client = boto3.client('bedrock-runtime', region_name='us-east-1')
response = client.converse(
    modelId='anthropic.claude-opus-4-6-v1',
    messages=[
        {
            'role': 'user',
            'content': [{'text': 'Can you explain the features of Amazon Bedrock?'}]
        }
    ]
)
print(response)
```

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## Supported models
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Bedrock supports [100\$1 foundation models](models.md) from industry-leading providers, including Amazon, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and OpenAI.


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|  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/nova2pro.png) **Nova 2**  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/claude.png) **Claude Opus 4.6**  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/deepseek.png) **Deepseek 3.2**  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/kimik2.5.png) **Kimi K2.5**  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/minimax2.1.png) **MiniMax M2.1**  |  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/models/openai.png) **GPT-OSS-20B**  | 

## What's new?
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+ Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI-compatible [Projects API](projects.md) in the Mantle inference engine in Amazon Bedrock.
+ **Anthropic's Claude 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock**: [Claude Sonnet 4.6](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/claude-sonnet-4.6-available-in-amazon-bedrock/) and [Claude Opus 4.6](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/2/claude-opus-4.6-available-amazon-bedrock/) are now available on Amazon Bedrock.
+ **[Six new open weight models](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-bedrock-adds-support-six-open-weights-models/)**: Amazon Bedrock now supports six new models spanning frontier reasoning and agentic coding: DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next.
+ **Server-side tools**: Amazon Bedrock [now supports](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-bedrock-server-side-custom-tools-responses-api/) server-side tools in the Responses API using OpenAI API-compatible service endpoints. You can also use your AgentCore Gateway tools to integrate with Amazon Bedrock models, enabling server-side tool execution without client-side orchestration.

## Start Building
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|  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/apis.jpg)  | Explore the [APIs supported by Amazon Bedrock](apis.md) and [Endpoints supported by Amazon Bedrock](endpoints.md) supported by Amazon Bedrock. | 
|  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/build.jpg)  | Build using the [Submit prompts and generate responses with model inference](inference.md) operations provided by Amazon Bedrock. | 
|  ![\[alt text not found\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/images/what-is/customize.png)  | Customize your models to improve performance and quality. [Customize your model to improve its performance for your use case](custom-models.md) |