diff --git a/src/anthropic/lib/bedrock/_stream_decoder.py b/src/anthropic/lib/bedrock/_stream_decoder.py
index 02e81a3ca..b3fe0dce0 100644
--- a/src/anthropic/lib/bedrock/_stream_decoder.py
+++ b/src/anthropic/lib/bedrock/_stream_decoder.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import json
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterator, AsyncIterator
 
 from ..._utils import lru_cache
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ def iter_bytes(self, iterator: Iterator[bytes]) -> Iterator[ServerSentEvent]:
             for event in event_stream_buffer:
                 message = self._parse_message_from_event(event)
                 if message:
-                    yield ServerSentEvent(data=message, event="completion")
+                    yield ServerSentEvent(data=message, event=self._sse_event_type(message))
 
     async def aiter_bytes(self, iterator: AsyncIterator[bytes]) -> AsyncIterator[ServerSentEvent]:
         """Given an async iterator that yields lines, iterate over it & yield every event encountered"""
@@ -49,7 +50,25 @@ async def aiter_bytes(self, iterator: AsyncIterator[bytes]) -> AsyncIterator[Ser
             for event in event_stream_buffer:
                 message = self._parse_message_from_event(event)
                 if message:
-                    yield ServerSentEvent(data=message, event="completion")
+                    yield ServerSentEvent(data=message, event=self._sse_event_type(message))
+
+    def _sse_event_type(self, message: str) -> str:
+        """Return the SSE event type for a decoded Bedrock message string.
+
+        Bedrock wraps all SSE payloads (including error events) in its binary
+        event-stream framing and delivers them over HTTP 200.  We need to
+        inspect the ``type`` field of the inner JSON so that error payloads are
+        surfaced as ``event="error"`` rather than ``event="completion"``.  The
+        standard ``_streaming.py`` error-handling path already converts
+        ``event="error"`` into the correct ``APIStatusError``.
+        """
+        try:
+            data = json.loads(message)
+            if isinstance(data, dict) and data.get("type") == "error":
+                return "error"
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+        return "completion"
 
     def _parse_message_from_event(self, event: EventStreamMessage) -> str | None:
         response_dict = event.to_response_dict()