converse

Sends messages to the specified Amazon Bedrock model. Converse provides a consistent interface that works with all models that support messages. This allows you to write code once and use it with different models. If a model has unique inference parameters, you can also pass those unique parameters to the model.

Amazon Bedrock doesn't store any text, images, or documents that you provide as content. The data is only used to generate the response.

You can submit a prompt by including it in the messages field, specifying the modelId of a foundation model or inference profile to run inference on it, and including any other fields that are relevant to your use case.

You can also submit a prompt from Prompt management by specifying the ARN of the prompt version and including a map of variables to values in the promptVariables field. You can append more messages to the prompt by using the messages field. If you use a prompt from Prompt management, you can't include the following fields in the request: additionalModelRequestFields, inferenceConfig, system, or toolConfig. Instead, these fields must be defined through Prompt management. For more information, see Use a prompt from Prompt management.

For information about the Converse API, see Use the Converse API in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide. To use a guardrail, see Use a guardrail with the Converse API in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide. To use a tool with a model, see Tool use (Function calling) in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide

For example code, see Converse API examples in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide.

This operation requires permission for the bedrock:InvokeModel action.

To deny all inference access to resources that you specify in the modelId field, you need to deny access to the bedrock:InvokeModel and bedrock:InvokeModelWithResponseStream actions. Doing this also denies access to the resource through the base inference actions (InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream). For more information see Deny access for inference on specific models.

For troubleshooting some of the common errors you might encounter when using the Converse API, see Troubleshooting Amazon Bedrock API Error Codes in the Amazon Bedrock User Guide