Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock is AWS’s managed service for building generative AI apps and agents, with access to hundreds of foundation models and the AgentCore agent platform.
About this tool
Amazon Bedrock is the generative AI service of Amazon Web Services. Through a single API, it offers hundreds of foundation models from AWS and other AI companies, with evaluation tools to compare them on performance and cost. Because it runs inside AWS, teams can combine it with their existing data, identity and security setup, and AWS says more than 100,000 organisations use it.
Customisation options include Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation, Bedrock Data Automation for processing documents and media, prompt engineering tools and fine-tuning. Guardrails filter harmful content and help detect unsupported answers. For agents, AgentCore provides deployment with any framework and model, authenticated connections to enterprise systems, and built-in tracing, debugging and evaluation.
What you can do
Model choice
Access hundreds of foundation models from multiple providers and evaluate them side by side.
Knowledge Bases and fine-tuning
Ground models in company data with RAG, or adapt them with fine-tuning.
Guardrails
Configurable safeguards that filter harmful content and check responses against your sources.
AgentCore
A platform to deploy, connect and monitor agents built with any framework, without managing infrastructure.
Who is it for?
- An insurer builds a claims assistant that answers from policy documents stored in AWS.
- A media company processes video and documents at scale with Data Automation.
- An enterprise deploys an agent framework of its choice on AgentCore with tracing and access controls.
Before you choose
Prices vary widely by model and service tier; estimate costs per model and consider reserved capacity for steady workloads.
Guardrail effectiveness figures come from AWS; test them against your own content and risks before relying on them.
Frequently asked questions
Which models are available on Amazon Bedrock?
Bedrock offers hundreds of foundation models from AWS and leading AI companies. Availability varies by AWS region, so check the model list for yours.
What is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore?
AgentCore is the part of Bedrock for building and running agents in production, with any framework and model, integrated authentication and observability.
How is Amazon Bedrock priced?
Pricing depends on modality, provider and model, with Standard, Flex, Priority and Reserved tiers. AWS lists rates per model on its pricing page.
Check the official website for current features, pricing, and terms.
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