AWS bedrock documentation change

Service: bedrock · 2026-06-28 · Documentation low

File: bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.md

Summary

Added recommendation for managed knowledge bases and renamed 'Self-managed Knowledge Base' to 'Customer-managed Knowledge Base'

Security assessment

Change is terminological and adds a feature recommendation without security implications. No security features or vulnerabilities mentioned.

Diff

diff --git a/bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.md b/bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.md
index 2ebd15ec6..a7ff0807c 100644
--- a//bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.md
+++ b//bedrock/latest/userguide/knowledge-base.md
@@ -10,0 +11,4 @@ While foundation models have general knowledge, you can further improve their re
+###### Important
+
+For optimized retrieval accuracy and a managed experience, we recommend [Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base](./kb-build-managed.html).
+
@@ -15 +19 @@ Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers two types of knowledge bases:
-  * **Self-managed Knowledge Base** – This enables you set up and manage your own RAG pipeline, including the vector store (such as Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Neptune), and have full control over data ingestion, parsing, indexing and storage configurations. You will need to setup and manage related infrastructure and configurations such as parsing for multimodal data. Note that several capabilities such as third-party connectors, document-level permissions and native AgentCore Gateway integration are only available for Managed Knowledge Bases.
+  * **Customer-managed Knowledge Base** – This enables you set up and manage your own RAG pipeline, including the vector store (such as Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Neptune), and have full control over data ingestion, parsing, indexing and storage configurations. You will need to setup and manage related infrastructure and configurations such as parsing for multimodal data. Note that several capabilities such as third-party connectors, document-level permissions and native AgentCore Gateway integration are only available for Managed Knowledge Bases.