AWS launches GenAI service in APAC region

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com, has announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock, its fully-managed generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) service, in its Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. It was globally launched through select regions in 2023.

The general availability of Amazon Bedrock in the Mumbai region will support customers across the country, including public sector organisations and companies in regulated industries, to innovate with GenAI and to have further choices on where they can run and store GenAI applications.

Amazon Bedrock offers customers a wholly managed service that includes a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API.