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Fine-grained access control for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base tools

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In short

The architecture addresses unauthorized departmental data leakage by combining Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Instead of letting the model supply search arguments, a Lambda request interceptor running at the gateway validates incoming Amazon Cognito tokens and overwrites context arguments with verified identity claims. This process ensures that knowledge base access-control-list features strictly scope retrieved documents to the authenticated user's actual profile.

Key points

  • Enterprises must prevent large language models from autonomously determining user identit…: Enterprises must prevent large language models from autonomously determining user identity parameters during internal knowledge searches.
  • Authenticated Amazon Cognito access tokens ensure that user email claims are validated be…: Authenticated Amazon Cognito access tokens ensure that user email claims are validated before data requests execute.
  • Decoupling authorization logic from model output guarantees robust fine-grained data prot…: Decoupling authorization logic from model output guarantees robust fine-grained data protection in multi-tenant enterprise environments.

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Fine-grained access control for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base tools

More enterprises are building AI agents into their daily work, and a common pattern is an agent that searches internal documents to compose its answers. A single organization might soon run hundreds of agents, each connected to many data sources and tools. This raises a question. When an agent searches on behalf of a user, can you make sure that it uses only the information that user is allowed to see?

Consider AnyCompany, a fictional company that builds an internal assistant shared by all employees. An employee in department A asks, “Compare my department’s business plan with the notice to all departments, and list the initiatives that are behind schedule.” The agent writes its own search queries and keeps searching internal documents until it has enough information. Employees in department B ask the same assistant the same question. If the application doesn’t scope searches to each user, the department B business plan can end up in an answer to an employee in department A. If you replace the…

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