AI Platform Briefing — Amazon Bedrock General Availability
AWS made Amazon Bedrock generally available on September 28, 2023, providing managed access to foundation models from Anthropic, Cohere, Stability AI, and Amazon Titan with enterprise governance tooling.
Executive briefing: AWS announced Amazon Bedrock general availability on . The service offers API access to leading foundation models, orchestration tooling, and built-in safeguards so enterprises can build generative AI applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
Key capabilities
- Foundation model catalog. Provides managed access to Amazon Titan, Anthropic Claude, Cohere Command, and Stability AI Stable Diffusion models.
- Guardrails and moderation. Content filters, prompt rejection, and traceability features support responsible AI requirements.
- Agents and workflows. Bedrock Agents orchestrate API calls, knowledge bases, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
- Enterprise integration. VPC connectivity, AWS IAM, and CloudWatch metrics align with existing security and monitoring standards.
Implementation guidance
- Classify Bedrock workloads by data sensitivity and configure VPC endpoints plus encryption keys via AWS KMS.
- Define prompt governance policies, logging, and human review criteria before scaling generative AI features.
- Benchmark model latency and output quality across Titan, Claude, and Cohere to select the right model per use case.