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Amazon Bedrock

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in
4.5
Market Presence: AI Application Development Platforms, Generative AI Model Providers

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Bedrock

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Bedrock?

Amazon Bedrock is a software that provides organizations with access to foundation models for building and scaling generative artificial intelligence applications through an API-based interface. The software enables users to experiment, customize, and deploy models in their workflows, facilitating integration with pre-built and custom large language models, image generators, and other generative AI capabilities. Amazon Bedrock addresses the business need for streamlining AI development, reducing infrastructure management tasks, and accelerating the deployment of machine learning solutions by supporting various model providers and offering workflow orchestration, monitoring, and security features without requiring extensive hardware setup or machine learning expertise.

Amazon Bedrock Pricing

Amazon Bedrock software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on usage metrics including input and output tokens processed by various generative AI models, with separate charges for model inference and optional model customization features. There are no up-front fees or long-term commitments, and charges are calculated according to actual consumption.

Overall experience with Amazon Bedrock

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
<50M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“Amazon Bedrock Simplifies AI Deployment but Poses Pricing and Flexibility Challenges”

4.0
Feb 11, 2026
Amazon Bedrock delivers a robust and well-integrated solution for accessing multiple AI foundation models through a single API. The seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem is exceptional, and the managed infrastructure eliminates operational overhead. However, the pricing model can be prohibitive for startups or experimentation at scale. Overall, it's an outstanding enterprise solution with significant value for organizations already invested in AWS
SENIOR CONSULTANT
1B - 3B USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Flexibility and Fast Experimentation Shape Experience With Amazon Bedrock and Outsystems”

3.0
Dec 8, 2025
My overall experience with Amazon Bedrock with Outsystems has been very positive, especially in terms of ease of adoption and flexibility. What stood out to me was how quickly we were able to experiment with multiple foundation models without going through heavy setup or infrastructure planning. Service fields are designed for teams that want to move fast but still maintain enterprise-level governance and security.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon Bedrock Likes & Dislikes

Like

Three standout features make Bedrock exceptional: Unified API across multiple models - Access to Claude, Llama, Cohere, and other models through one consistent interface eliminates the complexity of managing multiple vendor integrations and API keys. Seamless AWS ecosystem integration - Native integration with Lambda, S3, IAM, and other AWS services enables building production-grade AI applications without additional infrastructure overhead or third-party tools. Enterprise-grade security and compliance - Built-in encryption, VPC support, audit logging, and compliance certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) make it ideal for regulated industries where security is non-negotiable.

Like

The biggest advantage of Amazon Bedrock for me is the flexibility of choosing from multiple top tier foundation models within a single, well governed environment instead of committing to 1 vendor or managing separate integrations, Bedrock lets me compare outputs, experiment quickly and switch models depending on the task, this has saved a lot of engineering effort and made our AI development for Outsystems more adaptive.

Like

What I like the most about AWS Bedrock is how it combines enterprise-grade security with total flexibility in model choice. It gives me access to the best AI models in the worldClaude, Llama, Nova, Coherethrough a single, unified API, without compromising privacy or compliance. Bedrock lets me experiment fast, scale instantly, and deploy AI features confidently in production, all while staying fully inside the AWS ecosystem. It dramatically reduces complexity and gives me time back to focus on product innovation instead of infrastructure.

Dislike

The primary drawback is cost inefficiency for experimentation and variable workloads. On-demand pricing can quickly become expensive during development and testing phases. Limited model customization options compared to competitors, and the lack of fine-tuning capabilities for production models restricts advanced use cases. Additionally, response times during peak hours can be inconsistent, and the vendor lock-in to AWS increases long-term commitment risks for organizations wanting flexibility

Dislike

The main drawback I have experienced with Amazon Bedrock is the limited visibility into how pricing accumulates across different models and workloads, while the dashboard provides usage numbers it doesn't always give the level of cost breakdown or forecasting insights that would help teams optimize spending productively, especially when experimenting across multiple models.

Dislike

What I dislike the most about Bedrock is that using all its advanced capabilities can get expensive fast, especially when scaling

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Peer Discussions

Amazon Bedrock Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(526 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
58%
4 Star
37%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Amazon Bedrock Simplifies AI Deployment but Poses Pricing and Flexibility Challenges

    4.0
    Feb 11, 2026
    Amazon Bedrock delivers a robust and well-integrated solution for accessing multiple AI foundation models through a single API. The seamless integration with the AWS ecosystem is exceptional, and the managed infrastructure eliminates operational overhead. However, the pricing model can be prohibitive for startups or experimentation at scale. Overall, it's an outstanding enterprise solution with significant value for organizations already invested in AWS
  • SENIOR CONSULTANT
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Flexibility and Fast Experimentation Shape Experience With Amazon Bedrock and Outsystems

    3.0
    Dec 8, 2025
    My overall experience with Amazon Bedrock with Outsystems has been very positive, especially in terms of ease of adoption and flexibility. What stood out to me was how quickly we were able to experiment with multiple foundation models without going through heavy setup or infrastructure planning. Service fields are designed for teams that want to move fast but still maintain enterprise-level governance and security.
  • Partner
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Centralized Access to Leading AI Models Streamlines Production-Ready Development on AWS

    5.0
    Nov 30, 2025
    AWS Bedrock has quickly become one of the most reliable and scalable foundations for building real, production-ready Generative AI applications. After evaluating multiple LLM platforms, Bedrock stands out not just as a model provider, but as an end-to-end enterprise ecosystem that solves the tough problems companies face when bringing AI to production.
  • Product Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Flexible Model Swapping and Unified API. Great Data Privacy Features.

    4.0
    Feb 5, 2026
    Great for use cases where you need to swap models. The serverless experience is good, you can swap the large well known models like Llama, Claude etc with your own or you can get other models from Bedrock Marketplace. Makes updating model versions easy without changing your deployed codebase.
  • Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Amazon Bedrock Simplifies LLM Testing but Lacks Clarity in Token Consumption

    4.0
    Jan 31, 2026
    My overall experience with Amazon Bedrock has been positive, especially for experimenting with prompts across multiple foundation models. Bedrock made it easy to compare different models side by side and understand how each responded to the same prompt. The platform is really useful for evaluating model quality, consistency and latency under identical conditions.
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