DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock

As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock through an expanded range of options, including a new serverless solution. The fully managed DeepSeek-R1 model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the first cloud service provider (CSP) to deliver DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed, generally available model. You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with DeepSeek on AWS without having to manage infrastructure…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025)

As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. AWS Pi Day is now a yearly tradition. It started in 2021 as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Amazon S3. This year, there will be in-depth discussions with AWS product teams on how to build a data foundation for a unified seamless experience, managing and using data for analytics and AI workloads. Join us online to learn about the latest innovations through hands-on…

Scale and deliver game streaming experiences with Amazon GameLift Streams

Since 2016, game developers have been using Amazon GameLift to power games with dedicated, scalable server hosting capable of supporting 100M concurrent users (CCU) in a single game. Responding to customer requests for additional managed compute capabilities beyond game servers, we’re announcing Amazon GameLift Streams — a new capability in Amazon GameLift to help game publishers build and deliver global, direct-to-player game streaming experiences. As part of this announcement, existing capabilities in Amazon GameLift are now known as Amazon Gamelift Servers, continuing to serve hundreds of developers including industry leaders Ubisoft, Zynga, WB Games, and Meta. Amazon GameLift Streams helps you deliver game streaming experiences at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second across devices including iOS, Android,…