Bedrock in Sydney (GA) - Live from AWS Sydney Summit
Breaking News: AWS Bedrock Lands in Sydney
Published Apr 9, 2024
I’m in Sydney this week for the AWS Summit Sydney and I’ve just been left with much excitement after a MASSIVE announcement.
This must be one of the year's most anticipated announcements (in our region). I’ve had customers ask me every other week when this is happening. I can now say… TODAY rather than SOON.
I can practically hear you all leaning forward, eager to know what it is. Well, hold onto your seats because here it is: AWS Bedrock has officially landed in Sydney (ap-southeast-02)!
That’s right! AWS Bedrock is now available in Sydney (ap-southeast-02)
What does this mean for us Aussies? Lower latency for our Gen AI Workloads and the ability to respect data sovereignty.
Available immediately (by request) are the following selection models:
- Amazon
- Titan Text G1 - Lite
- Titan Text G1 - Express
- Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1
- Anthropic
- Claude 3 Sonnet
- Claude 3 Haiku
- Cohere
- Embed English
- Embed Multilingual
- Mistral AI
- Mistral 7B Instruct
- Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
- Mistral Large
So, what are we waiting for? Let's dive in and start building something amazing right here in our local Sydney region!
In fact, first thing today I asked Claude 3, in Sydney, to give me a Haiku, in celebration of its launch in Sydney.
Write me a Haiku about being an LLM hosted in Sydney:Artificial mindHoused in Sydney's bustling heartServe humans with grace
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