Amazon Bedrock is generally available for building and scaling AI applications using foundation models
September 28 2023

Amazon Bedrock, a fully-managed service providing a range of foundation models from leading AI companies, along with a comprehensive set of capabilities for building generative AI applications, is now universally available on Amazon Web Services. Key features include easy experimental tools for various foundation models, enabling users to create generative AI applications without writing code, privacy and security enforcement, easy integration with existing applications, and compliance with GDPR and HIPAA. Amazon Bedrock will soon include Meta’s Llama 2 13B and 70B parameter models, providing a broader spectrum to choose from, and it is integrated with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail for monitoring and managing needs.
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What does it mean?
- Amazon Bedrock: A service offered by Amazon that provides different baseline models from major artificial intelligence companies. It also has features that allow for the development of generative artificial intelligence applications.
- Fully-managed service: A type of service that is completely handled and operated by a provider. The customer doesn't need to do any maintenance or updates, those are all taken care of by the provider.
- Foundation models: These are base models used in artificial intelligence that function as a starting point for developing more complex AI models.
- Generative AI applications: These are applications that use artificial intelligence to generate content, such as images, text, music, or other forms of media.
- Amazon Web Services: A platform by Amazon that offers on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments.
- GDPR: The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in European Union law on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the European Union and the European Economic Area.
- HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
- Meta's Llama 2 13B and 70B parameter models: Specific high-capacity artificial intelligence models offered by Meta, a technology company.
- Amazon CloudWatch: A service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides monitoring and observability of your applications, infrastructure, and services.
- AWS CloudTrail: A service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
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