AWS shows agentic retrieval with LangChain on Bedrock Knowledge Bases
AWS published a walkthrough for building a Retrieval Augmented Generation application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base using LangChain. The post contrasts agentic retrieval with single-shot retrieval on multi-part questions, running the same query through both paths, reading trace events, and comparing the cost of each retrieval path.
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