high severityAWS Bedrock Agents (with Knowledge Base), aws-samples/bedrock-chat sample app

Bot status stuck at "NOT Ready - This bot has not completed the knowledge synchronization" or "Waiting Sync" / indexing hangs indefinitely after adding PDF/knowledge files.

Root cause

EventBridge Pipe loads entire DynamoDB record (prompt + file metadata) into ECS task Container Overrides parameter, exceeding 8192 char limit when prompts >8000 chars or many docs (50-300 files). Causes 400 error: "Container Overrides length must be at most 8192".

AWS Bedrock Agentsknowledge basesync delayEventBridge PipesECSDynamoDBcontainer overrides

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