diff --git a/bin/config.ts b/bin/config.ts
index 50d14bbff..aa5464fc7 100644
--- a/bin/config.ts
+++ b/bin/config.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ export function getConfig(): SystemConfig {
           name: "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2",
           default: true,
         },
+        {
+          provider: "cohere",
+          name: "rerank-english-v3.0",
+          default: false,
+        },
       ],
     },
   };
diff --git a/cli/magic-config.ts b/cli/magic-config.ts
index 969ffbb04..b076fa656 100644
--- a/cli/magic-config.ts
+++ b/cli/magic-config.ts
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ async function processCreateOptions(options: any): Promise<void> {
     name: "cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2",
     default: true,
   };
+  config.rag.crossEncoderModels[1] = { 
+    provider: "cohere",
+    name: "rerank-english-v3.0",
+  };
   config.rag.embeddingsModels = embeddingModels;
   config.rag.embeddingsModels.forEach((m: any) => {
     if (m.name === models.defaultEmbedding) {
diff --git a/docs/documentation/inference-script.md b/docs/documentation/inference-script.md
index b373e7a88..a06544997 100644
--- a/docs/documentation/inference-script.md
+++ b/docs/documentation/inference-script.md
@@ -30,3 +30,19 @@ The API is JSON body based:
   "passages": ["I love Paris", "I love London"]
 }
 ```
+
+## Cohere Rerank 3
+
+To use the Cohere Rerank 3 model, get an API key from Cohere, and include the following in the JSON request body:
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "cross-encoder",
+  "model": "rerank-english-v3.0",
+  "input": "What is the capital of the United States?",
+  "passages": [
+    "Carson City is the capital city of the American state of Nevada.",
+    "Washington, D.C. is the capital of the United States.",
+    ...
+  ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/model-interfaces/idefics/index.ts b/lib/model-interfaces/idefics/index.ts
index 8bb894053..eb7e671a0 100644
--- a/lib/model-interfaces/idefics/index.ts
+++ b/lib/model-interfaces/idefics/index.ts
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ export class IdeficsInterface extends Construct {
       new iam.PolicyStatement({
         actions: ["kms:Decrypt", "kms:ReEncryptFrom"],
         effect: iam.Effect.ALLOW,
-        resources: ["arn:aws:kms:*"],
+        resources: ["*"],
       })
     );
 
diff --git a/lib/rag-engines/sagemaker-rag-models/model/inference.py b/lib/rag-engines/sagemaker-rag-models/model/inference.py
index 546ae3358..bbfad81d1 100644
--- a/lib/rag-engines/sagemaker-rag-models/model/inference.py
+++ b/lib/rag-engines/sagemaker-rag-models/model/inference.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "intfloat/multilingual-e5-large",
     "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
 ]
-cross_encoder_models = ["cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2"]
+cross_encoder_models = ["cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-12-v2", "rerank-english-v3.0"]
 
 
 def process_model_list(model_list):
@@ -130,21 +130,26 @@ def predict_fn(input_object, config):
         passages = input_object["passages"]
         data = [[current_input, passage] for passage in passages]
 
-        with torch.inference_mode():
-            features = current_tokenizer(
-                data, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt"
-            )
-
-            features = features.to(device)
-
-            scores = current_model(**features).logits.cpu().numpy()
-            ret_value = list(
-                map(
-                    lambda val: val[-1] if isinstance(val, list) else val,
-                    scores.tolist(),
+        if current_model_id == "rerank-english-v3.0":
+            # Use Cohere Rerank 3 API
+            co = cohere.Client(os.environ["COHERE_API_KEY"])
+            results = co.rerank(query=current_input, documents=passages, top_n=len(passages), model='rerank-english-v3.0')
+            ret_value = [result.relevance_score for result in results]
+        else:
+            with torch.inference_mode():
+                features = current_tokenizer(
+                    data, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt"
                 )
-            )
-
-            return ret_value
+    
+                features = features.to(device)
+    
+                scores = current_model(**features).logits.cpu().numpy()
+                ret_value = list(
+                    map(
+                        lambda val: val[-1] if isinstance(val, list) else val,
+                        scores.tolist(),
+                    )
+                )
+        return ret_value
 
     return []
diff --git a/lib/shared/layers/common/requirements.txt b/lib/shared/layers/common/requirements.txt
index 8a798c0da..1aa5855f9 100644
--- a/lib/shared/layers/common/requirements.txt
+++ b/lib/shared/layers/common/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ pgvector==0.2.2
 pydantic==2.3.0
 urllib3<2
 openai==0.28.1
+cohere==5.3.0
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
 requests==2.31.0
 attrs==23.1.0
diff --git a/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/clients.py b/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/clients.py
index 15c3d2a8e..456871aa9 100644
--- a/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/clients.py
+++ b/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/clients.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import boto3
+import cohere
 import openai
 import genai_core.types
 import genai_core.parameters
@@ -52,3 +53,12 @@ def get_bedrock_client(service_name="bedrock-runtime"):
         bedrock_config_data["aws_session_token"] = credentials["SessionToken"]
 
     return boto3.client(**bedrock_config_data)
+
+def get_cohere_client():
+    api_key = genai_core.parameters.get_external_api_key("COHERE_API_KEY")
+    if not api_key:
+        return None
+
+    cohere_client = cohere.Client(api_key)
+
+    return cohere_client
diff --git a/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/cross_encoder.py b/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/cross_encoder.py
index 67bae7da5..053bf1a81 100644
--- a/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/cross_encoder.py
+++ b/lib/shared/layers/python-sdk/python/genai_core/cross_encoder.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ def rank_passages(
 
     if model.provider == "sagemaker":
         return _rank_passages_sagemaker(model, input, passages)
+    elif model.provider == "cohere":
+        return _rank_passages_cohere(model, input, passages)
 
     raise genai_core.typesCommonError(f"Unknown provider")
 
@@ -29,6 +31,10 @@ def get_cross_encoder_models():
     if not SAGEMAKER_RAG_MODELS_ENDPOINT:
         models = list(filter(lambda x: x["provider"] != "sagemaker", models))
 
+    for model in models:
+        if 'default' not in model:
+            model['default'] = False
+
     return models
 
 
@@ -66,3 +72,24 @@ def _rank_passages_sagemaker(
     ret_value = json.loads(response["Body"].read().decode())
 
     return ret_value
+
+def _rank_passages_cohere(
+    model: genai_core.types.CrossEncoderModel, input: str, passages: List[str]
+):
+    cohere_client = genai_core.clients.get_cohere_client()
+    if not cohere_client:
+        raise genai_core.types.CommonError("Cohere API key not set")
+
+    results = cohere_client.rerank(
+        query=input,
+        documents=passages,
+        model=model.name,
+    )
+
+    return [
+        genai_core.types.RankedPassage(
+            passage=passage,
+            score=result.relevance_score,
+        )
+        for passage, result in zip(passages, results)
+    ]
diff --git a/lib/shared/types.ts b/lib/shared/types.ts
index 0b3f3c341..45bc5186f 100644
--- a/lib/shared/types.ts
+++ b/lib/shared/types.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import * as sagemaker from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-sagemaker";
 
-export type ModelProvider = "sagemaker" | "bedrock" | "openai";
+export type ModelProvider = "sagemaker" | "bedrock" | "openai" | "cohere";
 
 export enum SupportedSageMakerModels {
   FalconLite = "FalconLite [ml.g5.12xlarge]",