Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview)

Amazon Web Services announced a significant expansion of its partnership with OpenAI, bringing the latest OpenAI models to Amazon Bedrock through three new limited preview offerings. For the first time, AWS customers can access OpenAI's frontier models directly through Bedrock's existing infrastructure, complete with enterprise-grade security controls including IAM authentication, AWS PrivateLink, guardrails, encryption, and CloudTrail logging. The integration allows organizations to leverage OpenAI's capabilities while maintaining their existing AWS governance frameworks and applying usage toward current cloud commitments. The announcement includes Codex on Amazon Bedrock, which integrates OpenAI's coding agent into AWS development environments through multiple access points including a CLI, desktop application, and VS Code extension. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI enables rapid deployment of production-ready AI agents built on OpenAI's latest models and agent harness. These managed agents feature enhanced execution speed, improved reasoning capabilities, and reliable handling of long-running tasks, with each agent maintaining its own identity and comprehensive action logging within the customer's AWS environment. The integration represents a major shift in how enterprise customers can access OpenAI's advanced AI capabilities, removing the need to manage separate infrastructure or security frameworks while maintaining the operational maturity that production workloads require.