AWS has now confirmed that its Bedrock platform is now generally available as it aims to help its customers build generatively AI tools and applications.
At the same time, the company announced that it is the first to offer a fully managed GenAI service with Meta’s Llama 2.
Amazon is clearly on a roll, also confirming the general availability of even more AI-focused products as it looks to take on some of the industry’s giants.
Amazon Bedrock is finally widely available
Amazon made the first announcement of Bedrock in April this year, with certain customers able to use the service. Now that it is generally available, the “fully managed service” is accessible to all customers.
Included is access to a range of core models from some of the largest AI companies, such as Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI and Amazon itself. Users can combine this with their own data for better customization.
The company has confirmed that Llama 2 will also become available “in the coming weeks” via a managed API, meaning access to Meta’s next-generation LLM with 13 billion and 70 billion parameters.
Coinciding with the general availability of Amazon Bedrock, the company also announced the general availability of Amazon Titan Embeddings and Amazon CodeWhisperer. The latter promises to “unlock the full potential of generative AI-powered coding” by taking users’ internal codebases and resources into account, helping developers achieve new levels of efficiency.
London-based bank NatWest, an existing Bedrock customer, said the service enables “the latest generative AI models to be used in a secure and scalable platform” to build tools to “counter the next generation of financial crime threats.” combat” and the customer experience.