The safeguards map / 3.5 Policy engines

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy
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A managed policy engine that evaluates Cedar policies against each AgentCore Gateway tool call, using the caller identity and the tool input parameters.
Where it sits
3.5 Policy engines (primary): Evaluates each request that passes through an AgentCore Gateway against Cedar policies held in a policy engine, using user identity and tool input parameters, before tool access is allowed.
Policy in AgentCore intercepts all agent traffic through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateways and evaluates each request against defined policies in the policy engine before allowing tool access.
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Policies are constructed using Cedar language
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Policy in AgentCore supports fine-grained permissions based on user identity and tool input parameters
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Facts
- Concern
- security
- Names the law
- no
- Subject
- agentAI system
- Used by
- those who run it
- Runs
- at runtime
- Policy comes from
- owner-entered settings
Handoffs
consumes Policy: Cedar policies
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