AWS Bedrock VSCode – How to Use Amazon Bedrock in Visual Studio Code

Amazon Bedrock gives developers API access to foundation models without managing model infrastructure — and with the right setup, you can work with those models directly from Visual Studio Code.

The core pieces are an AWS account with Bedrock model access enabled, credentials configured through the AWS CLI or environment variables, and an editor integration: the AWS Toolkit extension, a Bedrock-aware assistant, or your own scripts calling the Bedrock runtime SDK.

Once connected, the day-to-day workflow is straightforward: select a model, send prompts from your editor, and iterate on outputs without switching contexts. For teams, the bigger wins come from standardizing credentials with IAM roles and keeping model configuration in project settings rather than personal environments.

If you are evaluating Bedrock for a production workload rather than editor experiments, start with a scoped proof of concept — model choice, latency, and cost behave differently under real traffic than in a demo.