Amazon Bedrock Expands PrivateLink Support to OpenAI-Compatible API Endpoints

Amazon Web Services has expanded Amazon Bedrock’s support for AWS PrivateLink to include OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, allowing customers to access foundation models through private network connections rather than over the public internet. The enhancement enables organizations to use AWS PrivateLink to access applications using the bedrock-mantle endpoint, powered by Project Mantle. The move is designed to improve security and compliance for enterprise AI deployments. The offers higher default quotas with automated capacity management and unified pools, including out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specifications.

Private connectivity has become a key requirement for regulated industries and large enterprises deploying generative AI in production. By extending PrivateLink to OpenAI-compatible endpoints, AWS is aligning developer-friendly API patterns with enterprise-grade network controls. For platform and security teams, the update simplifies the process of integrating Bedrock-hosted models into private architectures without reworking existing application code. It also reinforces AWS’s broader strategy of combining model choice and API flexibility with infrastructure-level isolation, giving organizations tighter control over how generative AI services are accessed and governed within cloud environments.

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Posted by AWS Editors on 02/13/2026