Amazon Bedrock announces new Converse API
Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the new Converse API, which provides developers a consistent way to invoke Amazon Bedrock models removing the complexity to adjust for model-specific differences such as inference parameters. This API also simplifies managing multi-turn conversations by enabling developers to provide conversational history in a structured way as part of the API request. Furthermore, Converse API supports Tool use (function calling), which for supported models (Anthropic's Claude 3 model family including Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku; Mistral Large; and Cohere’s Command R and R+), will enable developers to perform a wide variety of tasks that require access to external tools and APIs.
The Converse API provides a consistent experience that works with Amazon Bedrock models, removing the need for developers to manage any model-specific implementation. With this API, you can write a code once and use it seamlessly with different models on Amazon Bedrock.
Converse API is available in AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock is available. For more information about the AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock is available, see the AWS Region table.
To get started, see the following list of resources: