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# AI SDK + Amazon Bedrock: How to send images to Claude (ImagePart) when images are in S3?

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Kherphay (@kherphay) · 2026-02-04

Hi — I’m on **ai@6** + **@ai-sdk/amazon-bedrock** using:

```
const bedrock = createAmazonBedrock({ region: 'ap-southeast-2', credentialProvider: ... });
const model = bedrock('au.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0');

```

I want Claude to analyze an image stored in S3. I have an S3 location like:

```
s3://my-bucket/path/to/image.jpg

```

Using the ImagePart docs, I tried to do:

```
await streamText({
  model,
  messages: [
    {
      role: 'user',
      content: [
        { type: 'text', text: 'What is in this image?' },
        { type: 'image', image: 's3://my-bucket/path/to/image.jpg' } // does this work?
      ],
    },
  ],
});

```

But the model behaves like it didn’t get pixels.

Questions:

* Does AI SDK v6 support **S3 references** in `ImagePart`, or does `image` strictly require **bytes**?

* If it requires bytes, is the correct approach:

  * `GetObject` from S3 → `Buffer` → `{ type:'image', image: buffer }`?

* Any gotchas with content type / size limits for Bedrock Claude vision?