Amazon Bedrock, an AWS platform to build Gen AI apps now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region | Technology News
At the ongoing AWS summit, Amazon announced that its machine learning platform used to build generative AI applications is now generally available in the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region. The platform Amazon Bedrock offers the easiest, fastest, and most secure way to build and scale generative AI applications and experiences.
The Amazon Bedrock platform was made generally available to all customers worldwide through select regions in 2023. With the latest announcement, the Amazon Bedrock in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region will support customers across the country, including public sector organisations and companies in regulated industries. The platform will help businesses innovate generative AI and have more choices on where they can run and store generative AI applications.
“AWS is committed to helping customers accelerate their generative AI journey from experimentation to production efficiently and securely. Our customers value choice; some prefer to build from scratch, while others prefer models tailored for specific use cases. We want to provide organisations in India with the performant, cost-effective infrastructure they need to build with generative AI,” said Shalini Kapoor, Chief Technologist–APJ Public Sector, Director–AWS India and South Asia.
Kapoor believes that the availability of Amazon Bedrock in India will further spur innovation that large enterprises, startups, independent software vendors, and public sector organisations are building in India, and complement their efforts to upskill their talent in generative AOI.
According to AWS, deploying generative AI workloads closer to end users will also help customers with low latency needs. “Low latency is especially important for generative AI applications in delivering faster processing and response times, which are essential for AI tasks like on-the-fly content generation, interactive user experiences, and real-time conversational insights,” read the official release.
For organisations in India, Amazon Bedrock offers top-tier models and customisation with enterprise-grade security. Moreover, AWS supports customers with tools, resources, and training for responsible AI innovation.
On Amazon Bedrock, available models include Amazon Titan (Text Lite, Text Express, Multi-modal Embeddings, Image Generator), Cohere (Embeddings English, Embeddings Multi-lingual), Anthropic (Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet), Meta (Llama 3 8B, Llama 3 70B), and Mistral (Mistral Large, Mistral 7B, Mistral 8x7B).
“We are excited about helping customers accelerate generative AI innovation across all industries with Amazon Bedrock. Take the financial services industry, for example, trading firms could supercharge their trading algorithms with generative AI to continually optimise trading strategies based on real-time portfolio performance and evolving market conditions. Or in the healthcare industry, hospitals could use virtual care assistants to alleviate resource constraints by using conversational language capabilities to assist with patient queries,” said V.G. Sundar Ram, Head of Business Development, AWS India and South Asia.
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First uploaded on: 15-05-2024 at 15:04 IST
