AWS – Amazon Bedrock Flows announces preview of persistent long-running execution and inline-code support

Amazon Bedrock Flows enables you to link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompts, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails and other AWS services together to build and scale pre-defined generative AI workflows. Today, we announce the preview of persistent execution for long running workflows, and inline-code execution support within the flows.

Bedrock Flows customers currently encounter three key limitations when authoring, executing and monitoring workflows: a two-minute idle timeout restriction per step, the need for custom API-based monitoring solutions, and the requirement to create Lambda functions for basic data processing tasks. Starting today, we’re addressing these challenges with new preview features that extend workflow step execution times to 15 minutes. The new capabilities include built-in execution tracking directly in the AWS Management Console, eliminating the need for custom monitoring code. You can now execute Python scripts using the new inline-code node type, removing the overhead of setting up Lambda functions for simple data processing. These enhancements significantly streamline workflow development and management in Amazon Bedrock Flows, helping you focus on building your generative AI applications.

Long-running Flows executions are now available in all supported commercial regions where Flows operates. The inline code node is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt). To get started, see the AWS user guide.

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