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Amazon Bedrock adds fine‑grained ACL control to Managed Knowledge Base

AWS blog shows how to limit each agent’s search to documents a user is allowed to see using ACL‑aware knowledge bases and a gateway interceptor.

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AWS announced a pattern that lets a single Bedrock agent serve many users while only returning documents each user can view. The solution injects the signed‑in user's email from a Cognito JWT into the tool call, then relies on Managed Knowledge Base’s ACL awareness to filter results. A Lambda interceptor and a Cedar policy verify the injected userContext before the search reaches the knowledge base.

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Enterprises can deploy shared AI assistants without risking accidental data leakage between departments or SaaS customers.

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