Amazon Bedrock
AWS's fully managed service for accessing foundation models from multiple providers including Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon through a unified API.
In-Depth Explanation
Amazon Bedrock is AWS's managed service for building generative AI applications, offering access to foundation models from multiple providers through a single API. It enables choice between models while leveraging AWS infrastructure.
Available model providers:
- Anthropic: Claude models
- Meta: Llama models
- Amazon: Titan models
- Cohere: Command models
- AI21 Labs: Jurassic models
- Stability AI: Image generation
Key features:
- Single API for multiple models
- AWS security and compliance
- Agents for Bedrock (autonomous AI)
- Knowledge Bases (RAG)
- Guardrails (content filtering)
- Fine-tuning capabilities
- Provisioned throughput
Integration benefits:
- Native AWS service integration
- IAM for access control
- CloudWatch monitoring
- VPC connectivity
- S3 for data storage
Business Context
Bedrock simplifies model selection by offering multiple providers, while maintaining AWS security standards and existing cloud investments.
How Clever Ops Uses This
We use Bedrock for Australian businesses on AWS who want model flexibility, especially those preferring Claude models with AWS compliance.
Example Use Case
"Building a document analysis pipeline using Bedrock: S3 for storage, Claude for analysis, Knowledge Bases for RAG, all within the AWS security perimeter."