diff --git a/docker-compose-bedrock.yaml b/docker-compose-bedrock.yaml
index b748b6e4..00150a93 100644
--- a/docker-compose-bedrock.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose-bedrock.yaml
@@ -210,9 +210,11 @@ services:
       - "-p"
       - "pulsar://pulsar:6650"
       - "-z"
-      - "{AWS_ID_KEY}"
+      - "${AWS_ID_KEY}"
       - "-k"
-      - "{AWS_SECRET_KEY}"
+      - "${AWS_SECRET_KEY}"
+      - "-r"
+      - "us-west-2"
     restart: on-failure:100
     
   text-completion-rag:
@@ -224,9 +226,11 @@ services:
   #    - "-m"
   #    - "mistral.mistral-large-2407-v1:0"
       - "-z"
-      - "{AWS_ID_KEY}"
+      - "${AWS_ID_KEY}"
       - "-k"
-      - "{AWS_SECRET_KEY}"
+      - "${AWS_SECRET_KEY}"
+      - "-r"
+      - "us-west-2" 
       - "-i"
       - "non-persistent://tg/request/text-completion-rag"
       - "-o"
diff --git a/trustgraph/model/text_completion/bedrock/llm.py b/trustgraph/model/text_completion/bedrock/llm.py
index 04c4c9fd..21ff73d8 100755
--- a/trustgraph/model/text_completion/bedrock/llm.py
+++ b/trustgraph/model/text_completion/bedrock/llm.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Input is prompt, output is response. Mistral is default.
 
 import boto3
 import json
+import re
 
 from .... schema import TextCompletionRequest, TextCompletionResponse
 from .... schema import text_completion_request_queue
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ default_input_queue = text_completion_request_queue
 default_output_queue = text_completion_response_queue
 default_subscriber = module
 default_model = 'mistral.mistral-large-2407-v1:0'
+default_region = 'us-west-2'
 
 class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
 
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
         model = params.get("model", default_model)
         aws_id = params.get("aws_id_key")
         aws_secret = params.get("aws_secret")
+        aws_region = params.get("aws_region", default_region)
 
         super(Processor, self).__init__(
             **params | {
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
         self.session = boto3.Session(
             aws_access_key_id=aws_id,
             aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret,
-            region_name='us-west-2'  # e.g., 'us-west-2'
+            region_name=aws_region
         )
 
         self.bedrock = self.session.client(service_name='bedrock-runtime')
@@ -99,11 +102,23 @@ class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
             response_body = json.loads(response.get("body").read())
             outputtext = response_body['outputs'][0]['text']            
  
-        resp = outputtext
-        print(resp, flush=True)
+        print(outputtext, flush=True)
+       
+        # Parse output for ```json``` delimiters
+        pattern = r'```json\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*```'
+        match = re.search(pattern, outputtext)
+
+        if match:
+            # If delimiters are found, extract the JSON content
+            json_content = match.group(1)
+            json_resp = json_content.strip()
+        
+        else:
+            # If no delimiters are found, return the original text
+            json_resp = outputtext.strip()
         
         print("Send response...", flush=True)
-        r = TextCompletionResponse(response=resp)
+        r = TextCompletionResponse(response=json_resp)
         self.send(r, properties={"id": id})
 
         print("Done.", flush=True)
@@ -132,6 +147,11 @@ class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
             help=f'AWS Secret Key'
         )
 
+        parser.add_argument(
+            '-r', '--aws-region',
+            help=f'AWS Region (default: us-west-2)'
+        )
+
 def run():
 
     Processor.start(module, __doc__)
diff --git a/trustgraph/model/text_completion/cohere/llm.py b/trustgraph/model/text_completion/cohere/llm.py
index c5d5ec27..5d8ba57c 100755
--- a/trustgraph/model/text_completion/cohere/llm.py
+++ b/trustgraph/model/text_completion/cohere/llm.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class Processor(ConsumerProducer):
         output = self.cohere.chat( 
         model=self.model,
         message=prompt,
-        preamble = "You are an AI-assistant chatbot. You are trained to read text and find entities in that text. You respond only with well-formed JSON.",
+        preamble = "You are a helpful AI-assistant."
         temperature=0.0,
         chat_history=[],
         prompt_truncation='auto',