# AWS adds contextual grounding checks to Bedrock Guardrails

> AWS announced contextual grounding checks and an ApplyGuardrail API for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The feature was described as a way to assess grounding and relevance for RAG and conversational applications, including use with custom and third-party foundation models, rather than a guarantee that an answer is true.

Canonical: https://hypler.com/ai-news/aws-bedrock-guardrails-grounding-2024
Hypler publication: 2026-10-06
Original source date: 2024-07-10
Publisher: AWS
Article kind: source-briefing
Category: Infrastructure
Tags: guardrails, RAG, AWS

## Engineering relevance

Guardrail scores are signals, not truth guarantees. Hypler should calibrate thresholds against real examples, preserve source and score evidence, and design safe behavior when a check is uncertain or unavailable.

## Original source

- [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/07/guardrails-bedrock-hallucinations-safeguard-apps-fm/)

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