AWS Announces General Availability of Bedrock in India

AWS Announces General Availability of Bedrock in India

The availability of AWS Bedrock in India will further spur innovation in large enterprises, startups, independent software vendors, and public sector organisations.

Amazon’s cloud computing segment AWS announced the general availability of its Generative AI service suite Amazon Bedrock in the Asia-Pacific region.

Shalini Kapoor, Chief Technologist at APJ Public Sector and Director of AWS India and South Asia, said, “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 AI.”

V.G. Sundar Ram, Head of Business Development, AWS India and South Asia, said, “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.”

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Introduced last year, Bedrock offers a range of foundational models from Anthropic, Meta, Cohere as well as their own in-house models for customers to build secure applications on top of them and deploy.