Amazon Bedrock & AgentCore

1. Introducing Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock delivers a comprehensive platform to build, deploy, and scale Generative AI applications. Strengths: fully managed infrastructure, access to leading models, and AWS-grade security.

Core capabilities:

  • Choose the best model: Aggregate models from multiple providers.
  • Optimize for cost, latency, and accuracy: Balance budget and performance.
  • Securely customize with your data: Tailor models with enterprise data.
  • Apply safety and responsible AI checks: Enforce responsible AI guardrails.
  • Deploy and operate agents: Run AI agents on top of Bedrock.
+-------------------+   +-------------------+   +-------------------+
|  Model Selection  |-->|  Optimization     |-->|  Customization    |
+-------------------+   +-------------------+   +-------------------+
                               |
                               v
+-------------------+   +-------------------+
| Responsible AI    |-->| Agent Deployment |
+-------------------+   +-------------------+

2. Broadest Model Selection

Bedrock unifies a wide portfolio of fully managed models from top AI companies:

  • AI21 Labs: JAMBA - efficient processing, long-context reasoning.
  • Amazon: NOVA - frontier intelligence with standout performance.
  • Anthropic: Claude - strong at reasoning and code generation.
  • Cohere: Command R - multilingual, search, and retrieval focus.
  • Meta: LLaMA - image and language reasoning.
  • Mistral, Kestrel: expert-grade models.
  • Stability AI: Stable Diffusion - image generation.
  • TwelveLabs: video AI (Marengo, Pegasus).
  • Writer: personalized enterprise writing.
  • Luma: high-quality video AI.
  • Poolside (coming soon): enterprise-scale software engineering AI.

-> Bedrock operates as a fully managed model marketplace within the AWS ecosystem.

[ AI21 ]   [ Amazon ]   [ Anthropic ]   [ Cohere ]
[ Meta ]   [ Mistral ]  [ Stability ]   [ TwelveLabs ]
[ Writer ] [ Luma ]     [ Poolside ]    [ Kestrel ]

3. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore is the foundational service for deploying AI agents securely and at scale.

Core capabilities:

  • Deploy securely at scale: Launch on AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Enhance with tools and memory: Connect to APIs, databases, external tools, and add memory.
  • Monitor: Observe and manage agents in production environments.
+-------------------+       +-------------------+       +-------------------+
|   Deployment      | ----> |  Tools + Memory   | ----> |     Monitoring    |
| Secure & Scalable |       | Integration       |       | Observability     |
+-------------------+       +-------------------+       +-------------------+

4. Strategic Meaning

  • Bedrock = neutral AI infrastructure with diverse models and no vendor lock-in.
  • AgentCore = the operating layer for enterprise-scale AI agents.
  • Helps companies move from POC -> production quickly and safely.

-> A critical milestone for Vietnam and the region to adopt enterprise-grade AI agents instead of stopping at experiments.

5. Key Insights for the Notion materials

  • Bedrock = model and tooling hub for applied AI development.
  • AgentCore = runtime OS for AI agents at large scale.
  • Establishes an AWS AI ecosystem that serves both startups and enterprises.