Languages supported by Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports a variety of languages. The following sections detail language support for the specific policies offered by Amazon Bedrock Guardrails.
Important
We strongly recommend that you test the intended languages for your guardrails use case. Guardrails are ineffective with languages that aren't supported.
Key terms
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Optimized and supported – The underlying models supporting the particular policy are tuned and tested for the specific language.
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Supported – The underlying models supporting the particular policy are tested but not tuned for the specific language.
Content filters and prompt attacks language support
Language support for text-based content filters and prompt attacks varies depending on the safeguard tier you use.
The following table shows which languages are supported for text-based content filtering and prompt attacks in the Standard tier.
| Language | Support level |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Supported |
| Albanian | Supported |
| Arabic | Optimized and supported |
| Armenian | Supported |
| Assamese | Supported |
| Azerbaijani | Supported |
| Basque | Supported |
| Belarusian | Supported |
| Bengali | Supported |
| Bosnian | Supported |
| Bulgarian | Supported |
| Bulgarian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Burmese | Supported |
| Catalan | Supported |
| Cebuano | Supported |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Optimized and supported |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Supported |
| Croatian | Supported |
| Czech | Supported |
| Danish | Supported |
| Dutch | Optimized and supported |
| English (all locales) | Optimized and supported |
| Estonian | Supported |
| Filipino | Supported |
| Finnish | Optimized and supported |
| French | Optimized and supported |
| Galician | Supported |
| Georgian | Supported |
| German | Optimized and supported |
| Greek | Supported |
| Gujarati | Supported |
| Haitian Creole | Supported |
| Hebrew | Supported |
| Hindi | Optimized and supported |
| Hungarian | Supported |
| Icelandic | Supported |
| Indonesian | Supported |
| Irish | Supported |
| Italian | Optimized and supported |
| Japanese | Optimized and supported |
| Javanese | Supported |
| Kannada | Supported |
| Kazakh | Supported |
| Khmer | Supported |
| Korean | Optimized and supported |
| Kurmanji | Supported |
| Kyrgyz | Supported |
| Latvian | Supported |
| Lithuanian | Supported |
| Macedonian | Supported |
| Malay | Supported |
| Malayalam | Supported |
| Maltese | Supported |
| Marathi | Supported |
| Nepali | Supported |
| Norwegian | Optimized and supported |
| Pashto | Supported |
| Persian (Farsi) | Supported |
| Polish | Optimized and supported |
| Portuguese | Optimized and supported |
| Punjabi | Supported |
| Romanian | Supported |
| Russian | Supported |
| Russian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | Supported |
| Serbianian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Sinhala | Supported |
| Slovak | Supported |
| Slovenian | Supported |
| Spanish | Optimized and supported |
| Sundanese | Supported |
| Swahili | Supported |
| Swedish | Optimized and supported |
| Tagalog | Supported |
| Tajik | Supported |
| Tamil | Supported |
| Telugu | Supported |
| Thai | Supported |
| Turkish | Supported |
| Ukrainian | Supported |
| Urdu | Supported |
| Uzbek (Latin script) | Supported |
| Vietnamese | Optimized and supported |
| Welsh | Supported |
Classic tier supports the following languages for text-based content filters and prompt attacks:
|
Language |
Support level |
|---|---|
|
English |
Optimized and supported |
|
French |
Optimized and supported |
|
Spanish |
Optimized and supported |
Denied topics language support
Language support for denied topics varies depending on the safeguard tier you use.
The following table shows which languages are supported for text-based content filtering in the Standard tier.
| Language | Support level |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Supported |
| Amharic | Supported |
| Albanian | Supported |
| Arabic | Optimized and supported |
| Armenian | Supported |
| Assamese | Supported |
| Azerbaijani | Supported |
| Basque | Supported |
| Belarusian | Supported |
| Bengali | Supported |
| Bosnian | Supported |
| Bulgarian | Supported |
| Bulgarian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Burmese | Supported |
| Catalan | Supported |
| Cebuano | Supported |
| Chinese (Pinyin) | Supported |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Optimized and supported |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Supported |
| Croatian | Supported |
| Czech | Supported |
| Danish | Supported |
| Dutch | Optimized and supported |
| English (all locales) | Optimized and supported |
| Estonian | Supported |
| Filipino | Supported |
| Finnish | Optimized and supported |
| French | Optimized and supported |
| Galician | Supported |
| Georgian | Supported |
| German | Optimized and supported |
| Greek | Supported |
| Greek (Latin script) | Supported |
| Gujarati | Supported |
| Haitian Creole | Supported |
| Hausa | Supported |
| Hebrew | Supported |
| Hindi | Optimized and supported |
| Hindi (Latin script) | Supported |
| Hungarian | Supported |
| Icelandic | Supported |
| Igbo | Supported |
| Indonesian | Supported |
| Italian | Optimized and supported |
| Irish | Supported |
| Japanese | Optimized and supported |
| Japanese (Romaji) | Supported |
| Javanese | Supported |
| Kannada | Supported |
| Kazakh | Supported |
| Khmer | Supported |
| Korean | Optimized and supported |
| Kurmanji | Supported |
| Kyrgyz | Supported |
| Lao | Supported |
| Latvian | Supported |
| Lithuanian | Supported |
| Macedonian | Supported |
| Malay | Supported |
| Malayalam | Supported |
| Maltese | Supported |
| Marathi | Supported |
| Mongolian | Supported |
| Nepali | Supported |
| Norwegian | Optimized and supported |
| Pashto | Supported |
| Persian (Farsi) | Supported |
| Polish | Optimized and supported |
| Portuguese | Optimized and supported |
| Punjabi | Supported |
| Romanian | Supported |
| Russian | Supported |
| Russian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Scottish Gaelic | Supported |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | Supported |
| Serbianian (Latin script) | Supported |
| Shona | Supported |
| Sindhi | Supported |
| Sinhala | Supported |
| Slovak | Supported |
| Slovenian | Supported |
| Somali | Supported |
| Spanish | Optimized and supported |
| Sundanese | Supported |
| Swahili | Supported |
| Swedish | Optimized and supported |
| Tagalog | Supported |
| Tajik | Supported |
| Tamil | Supported |
| Telugu | Supported |
| Thai | Supported |
| Tigrinya | Supported |
| Turkish | Supported |
| Ukrainian | Supported |
| Urdu | Supported |
| Uzbek (Latin script) | Supported |
| Vietnamese | Optimized and supported |
| Welsh | Supported |
| Xhosa | Supported |
| Zulu | Supported |
Classic tier supports the following languages for denied topics:
|
Language |
Support level |
|---|---|
|
English |
Optimized and supported |
|
French |
Optimized and supported |
|
Spanish |
Optimized and supported |
Word filters language support
Word filters support the following languages.
|
Language |
Support level |
|---|---|
|
English |
Supported |
|
French |
Supported |
|
Spanish |
Supported |
Sensitive information filters language support
Sensitive information filters support the following languages.
|
Language |
Support level |
|---|---|
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Arabic |
Optimized and supported |
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Chinese |
Optimized and supported |
|
Dutch |
Optimized and supported |
|
English |
Optimized and supported |
|
Finnish |
Optimized and supported |
|
French |
Optimized and supported |
|
German |
Optimized and supported |
| Hindi |
Optimized and supported |
|
Italian |
Optimized and supported |
|
Japanese |
Optimized and supported |
|
Korean |
Optimized and supported |
|
Norwegian |
Optimized and supported |
|
Polish |
Optimized and supported |
|
Portuguese |
Optimized and supported |
|
Spanish |
Optimized and supported |
|
Swedish |
Optimized and supported |
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Vietnamese |
Optimized and supported |
Contextual grounding checks language support
Contextual grounding checks support the following languages.
|
Language |
Support level |
|---|---|
|
English |
Optimized and supported |
|
French |
Optimized and supported |
|
Spanish |
Optimized and supported |
