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Amazon Bedrock

by AWS

The Launchpad take

Verdict

Managed access to multiple foundation models

Multi-model AI platform; Claude/Llama/Mistral via AWS; RAG with Knowledge Bases; AI Agents; Guardrails

Best for

AWS developersenterprise ML teamscompanies with AWS infrastructureregulated industries

Quick facts

Free tier
AWS Free Tier: limited model usage for first 2 months; varies by model
Starting price
See pricing
Platforms
api
Company
AWS
Ready to try Amazon Bedrock? Start with the getting-started guide.

Pricing

PlanPrice
Pay-per-useSee pricing

Key capabilities

Works with

  • Text
  • images
  • embeddings (via various models)

Outputs

  • API responses
  • streaming
  • batch results

Get it

How to use Amazon Bedrock on phones and tablets.

  • Mobile web: Works in a mobile browser (responsive or dedicated mobile site).

Technical details

Offline
No
API
Yes
Languages
Multilingual (depends on model selected)
Difficulty
Beginner-friendly
Privacy
High
Time to productivity
2 hours
Upgrade when
Trial expiration; Provisioned Throughput; custom fine-tuning; Guardrails; Knowledge Bases; Agents
Integrations
AWS ecosystem (Lambda, S3, SageMaker, CloudWatch)
more

LangChain, LlamaIndex, all AWS services

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