Amazon Bedrock announces new Converse API

Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the new Converse API, which provides developers a consistent way to invoke Amazon Bedrock models removing the complexity to adjust for model-specific differences such as inference parameters. This API also simplifies managing multi-turn conversations by enabling developers to provide conversational history in a structured way as part of the API request. Furthermore, Converse API supports Tool use (function calling), which for supported models (Anthropic's Claude 3 model family including Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku; Mistral Large; and Cohere’s Command R and R+), will enable developers to perform a wide variety of tasks that require access to external tools and APIs.

The Converse API provides a consistent experience that works with Amazon Bedrock models, removing the need for developers to manage any model-specific implementation. With this API, you can write a code once and use it seamlessly with different models on Amazon Bedrock.