{"slug": "amazon-bedrock", "name": "Amazon Bedrock", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 14, "commenters": 59, "warners": 12, "score": 8.568, "rising": -4.58, "first": "2025-11-14", "latest": "2026-10-13", "why": "AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 14, "neutral": 34, "compare": 5, "warn": 12}, "spark": [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 6, 0, 3, 2, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Amazon Bedrock", "AWS Bedrock"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 785151200, "item_id": 49071950, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071950", "by": "jmalicki", "date": "2026-07-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry.", "excerpt": "> Worst-case example: Bootstrapped startup working in military. That's the easiest case. AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry. (I really have no affiliation with them, I'm just like... this is a completely solved problem, why do people think this is hard and requires on-prem hardware?) https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-secret-cloud-for-industry-defense-contractors I'm with GP that these ", "context": "", "use_case": "secure private model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27"}, {"id": 782562640, "item_id": 48910165, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910165", "by": "unreal6", "date": "2026-07-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Their new endpoint even promises zero operator access", "excerpt": "Is Bedrock a \"middleman?\" I believe that they run all inference inside of AWS data centers, on their own infrastructure. Their new endpoint even promises zero operator access [0] [0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/exploring-the-zero-operator-access-design-of-mantle/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB \u2013 only one notch above junk level"}, {"id": 773906272, "item_id": 48369142, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369142", "by": "a_bonobo", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can use Claude and Copilot via AWS Bedrock, and there are VSCode plugins for that", "excerpt": "You can use Claude and Copilot via AWS Bedrock, and there are VSCode plugins for that https://dev.to/aws-builders/setting-up-aws-bedrock-with-claude-5f67", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold"}, {"id": 773829552, "item_id": 48364347, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364347", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "So we use Bedrock.", "excerpt": "In contrast to Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, AWS has never done anything close to sneaking in unwanted training opt-outs after the fact. They are the only ones I trust not to do that so far. And their terms are extremely clear on that, no fuzzy language. Exactly what we want to see. So we use Bedrock.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosted model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 767195472, "item_id": 47949717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949717", "by": "Eridrus", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can get the frontier models hosted in Stockholm & Ireland", "excerpt": "You can get the frontier models hosted in Stockholm & Ireland: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-anthropic-claude-opus-4-7.html There's probably a very good business to be made of bringing close to frontier knowledge and finetuning recipes and infrastructure to enterprises that cannot hire that talent. But that's largely not a business that is going to be of a lot of interest to technolo", "context": "", "use_case": "EU-hosted frontier model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801099569, "item_id": 50068723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068723", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-10-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock of course has their flagged prompts loophole.", "excerpt": "Some of them have zdr some not. Their vertex endpoint is changing because it is not zdr. Fable does not have a zdr endpoint for any company, any platform. Bedrock of course has their flagged prompts loophole. You can't trust them, in any case, the endpoint could be anything. You can barely trust TEE, sadly the tinfoil endpoint I used is heading towards surveillance as well by adding abuse monitoring.", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic"}, {"id": 789876624, "item_id": 49367289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367289", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-08-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they don't defent if the input to the model is the IP", "excerpt": "> Within certain limits and certain models For those that hadn't read yet (on https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/): \"Certain models\" means \"only AWS's own trained models\" (Nova etc), so not e.g. Bedrock Claude or GPT. \"Certain limits\" means they don't defent if the input to the model is the IP.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B"}, {"id": 789189217, "item_id": 49324326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324326", "by": "btown", "date": "2026-08-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "A large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support", "excerpt": "A large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support [0]. And this is a vital feature, because Gemini itself (as far as I'm aware) does not have a real-time daily or weekly hard spend cap in the case of misconfigured or compromised callers [1][2]. Meta's closed source models, too, are only available on OpenRouter (and it's touted as a first-class recommendation on [3]). So, in many ways, OpenRouter is the onl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter"}, {"id": 788404752, "item_id": 49275297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275297", "by": "daemonologist", "date": "2026-08-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock seems to have stopped adding new open-weights models", "excerpt": "Bedrock seems to have stopped adding new open-weights models, and mostly only has Anthropic and OpenAI stuff now. You can get Qwen 3.8 directly from Alibaba: https://www.qwencloud.com (proprietary variant) or from DigitalOcean (this variant, probably also from others soon). On your 5090 you could easily run a smaller model like Qwen 3.6 27B: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen36 or Gemma 4 etc., or as mentio", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted model API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B"}]}], "who": [{"by": "elpakal", "context": "team using LLM APIs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49987483", "date": "2026-10-07"}, {"by": "sajithdilshan", "context": "company with strict compliance requirements", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883584", "date": "2026-09-28"}, {"by": "csaba-boros", "context": "AWS-certified contractor", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792795", "date": "2026-07-05"}, {"by": "stymaar", "context": "works outside the US with data residency requirements", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369959", "date": "2026-06-02"}, {"by": "lasgawe", "context": "mainly a developer with no marketing knowledge", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46942639", "date": "2026-02-08"}, {"by": "raw_anon_1111", "context": "cloud consulting, app dev", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627659", "date": "2026-01-14"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["hosted model access", "llm hosting", "llm api access", "eu-compliant model inference", "ai api access", "hosted model api"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 13, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 10, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "openrouter", "name": "OpenRouter", "co": 7, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "vertex-ai", "name": "Vertex AI", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "langgraph", "name": "LangGraph", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "aws-lambda", "name": "AWS Lambda", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 775473972, "item_id": 48467123, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467123", "by": "isengard3000", "date": "2026-06-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Every model available on Bedrock is available for free with no caps.", "excerpt": "Amazon employee here. - Can confirm that channel exists and it's great. Rofl every day for all the stupidity happening in the company. - Despite many seeing Amazon as outsider for AI, it's actually a great place to work (if not fired). We have free access to all frontier models, including today's Mythos release for all employees. - Every model available on Bedrock is available for free with no caps. I think it's beca", "context": "Amazon employee", "use_case": "internal model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"}, {"id": 767081040, "item_id": 47942565, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942565", "by": "ManishR", "date": "2026-04-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We now have bedrock-mantle endpoint which supports OpenAI API compatibility with Responses and Chat Completions support.", "excerpt": "Product Manager for Bedrock Mantle here. We now have bedrock-mantle endpoint which supports OpenAI API compatibility with Responses and Chat Completions support. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/endpoints.html", "context": "Product Manager for Bedrock Mantle", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132", "title": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939320", "title": "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060500", "title": "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381", "title": "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092", "title": "Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108437", "title": "Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 6}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 5, "recommend": 6, "compare": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 5}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 5, "recommend": 3, "warn": 3, "compare": 2}, "2026-07": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"warn": 3, "compare": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 3}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 3, "warn": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 801099569, "item_id": 50068723, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068723", "by": "lukewarm707", "date": "2026-10-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock of course has their flagged prompts loophole.", "excerpt": "Some of them have zdr some not. Their vertex endpoint is changing because it is not zdr. Fable does not have a zdr endpoint for any company, any platform. Bedrock of course has their flagged prompts loophole. You can't trust them, in any case, the endpoint could be anything. You can barely trust TEE, sadly the tinfoil endpoint I used is heading towards surveillance as well by adding abuse monitoring.", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic"}, {"id": 800972562, "item_id": 50060785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060785", "by": "povik", "date": "2026-10-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "being offered as providers with zero data retention", "excerpt": "> ChatGPT and Claude will never be private > These companies only offer closed versions of their powerful models (despite the word \"open\" in \"OpenAI\"). You pay them for chat and/or API access, and they are allowed to look at everything you do. How should I reconcile this claim with 'Google Vertex' and 'Amazon Bedrock' being offered as providers with zero data retention on https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-5", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic"}, {"id": 799799728, "item_id": 49987483, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49987483", "by": "elpakal", "date": "2026-10-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use AWS bedrock and just switched to Anthropic from OpenAI because of the ZDR guarantee.", "excerpt": "Have there been any signals from Anthropic about matching this? We use AWS bedrock and just switched to Anthropic from OpenAI because of the ZDR guarantee. Would be great to not have to entertain switching back.", "context": "team using LLM APIs", "use_case": "LLM API access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Decisions API is in public beta"}, {"id": 798859346, "item_id": 49928709, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928709", "by": "jmcdonald-ut", "date": "2026-10-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I connected it with Bedrock", "excerpt": "I've only used it at home a little on personal projects. My usage is probably odd -- I connected it with Bedrock, but otherwise used it the same as I do Claude Code (mostly). My basic flow was simple: - Ask it to accomplish some coding task - If it fell short, and I determined that was due to the harness, ask it to patch - Otherwise proceed to next task - Rinse + repeat I run it within a sandbox, so I've been comfort", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798137344, "item_id": 49883584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883584", "by": "sajithdilshan", "date": "2026-09-28", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Anthropic models via AWS bedrock where inference is deployed in EU regions", "excerpt": "Open AI is terrible at diversifying their offering. We use Anthropic models via AWS bedrock where inference is deployed in EU regions due to strict compliance reasons. We've been wanting to try out the new Open AI models for ages, but they don't offer the models in any EU region. Open AI is losing a ton of money they can milk from corporations because of that.", "context": "company with strict compliance requirements", "use_case": "EU-compliant model inference", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sonnet 5.5"}, {"id": 793156529, "item_id": 49572283, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572283", "by": "strictnein", "date": "2026-09-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I use Vertex or the Bedrock, my AI API requests from my instances doesn't leave their networks.", "excerpt": "> They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. Oh, is that all? > Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else Which shared wires does Google's traffic go across? Do they share that network with others or do they not function as a Tier 1 network? How about Amazon? And the NSA is doing deep packet inspection of all the traffic going to these places to pull out the ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI API access", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"}, {"id": 792390492, "item_id": 49524405, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524405", "by": "sjtroxel", "date": "2026-09-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS Lambda + Bedrock", "excerpt": "Location: Cape Girardeau, MO, USA (CST) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, LangGraph, RAG, Chroma, Pinecone, pgvector, PostgreSQL, Redis Streams, Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs, MCP, LLM-as-judge evals, AWS Lambda + Bedrock, Docker, GitHub Actions R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://sjtroxel.github.io Email: sjtroxel@protonmail.com --- I'm basically self-taught / career-changer. Everyt", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 789876624, "item_id": 49367289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367289", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-08-19", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "they don't defent if the input to the model is the IP", "excerpt": "> Within certain limits and certain models For those that hadn't read yet (on https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/): \"Certain models\" means \"only AWS's own trained models\" (Nova etc), so not e.g. Bedrock Claude or GPT. \"Certain limits\" means they don't defent if the input to the model is the IP.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B"}, {"id": 789189217, "item_id": 49324326, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324326", "by": "btown", "date": "2026-08-16", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "A large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support", "excerpt": "A large missing link for AWS Bedrock is Gemini model support [0]. And this is a vital feature, because Gemini itself (as far as I'm aware) does not have a real-time daily or weekly hard spend cap in the case of misconfigured or compromised callers [1][2]. Meta's closed source models, too, are only available on OpenRouter (and it's touted as a first-class recommendation on [3]). So, in many ways, OpenRouter is the onl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter"}, {"id": 789185953, "item_id": 49324122, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324122", "by": "Taikhoom10", "date": "2026-08-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "AWS Bedrock may be great for large enterprises, but flexible startups will use OpenRouter", "excerpt": "The reason OpenRouter can build value even if there are 100 clones is switching costs and flexibility. AWS Bedrock may be great for large enterprises, but flexible startups will use OpenRouter for ease, and now they have Stripe's distribution. Once you use OpenRouter, you won't switch because you become embedded in the logs and cost-saving systems. AWS Bedrock - Microsoft Teams OpenRouter - Slack https://s-1.vercel.a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter"}, {"id": 788404752, "item_id": 49275297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275297", "by": "daemonologist", "date": "2026-08-12", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock seems to have stopped adding new open-weights models", "excerpt": "Bedrock seems to have stopped adding new open-weights models, and mostly only has Anthropic and OpenAI stuff now. You can get Qwen 3.8 directly from Alibaba: https://www.qwencloud.com (proprietary variant) or from DigitalOcean (this variant, probably also from others soon). On your 5090 you could easily run a smaller model like Qwen 3.6 27B: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen36 or Gemma 4 etc., or as mentio", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted model API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B"}, {"id": 785151200, "item_id": 49071950, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071950", "by": "jmalicki", "date": "2026-07-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry.", "excerpt": "> Worst-case example: Bootstrapped startup working in military. That's the easiest case. AWS Bedrock models running in AWS Secret Cloud for Industry. (I really have no affiliation with them, I'm just like... this is a completely solved problem, why do people think this is hard and requires on-prem hardware?) https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-secret-cloud-for-industry-defense-contractors I'm with GP that these ", "context": "", "use_case": "secure private model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27"}, {"id": 783709697, "item_id": 48981856, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981856", "by": "x313", "date": "2026-07-20", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "AWS Bedrock is awful, models are months late and implemented with basic errors.", "excerpt": "Similar story here. DS models are absurdly good value for mid-end tasks. I've found DSv4 Flash to be ~10% the cost of GPT-5.4-mini/Claude Haiku at similar performance. We used to pay OpenAI >1m$/month for fraud classification, NER, etc. Sadly the US companies no longer care about non-coding-agent uses. I imagine uptake will continue to increase as the corporate infra improves. Right now it's still bad - for example, ", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting models", "switched_from": "", "story": "American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing"}, {"id": 782562640, "item_id": 48910165, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910165", "by": "unreal6", "date": "2026-07-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Their new endpoint even promises zero operator access", "excerpt": "Is Bedrock a \"middleman?\" I believe that they run all inference inside of AWS data centers, on their own infrastructure. Their new endpoint even promises zero operator access [0] [0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/exploring-the-zero-operator-access-design-of-mantle/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB \u2013 only one notch above junk level"}, {"id": 781018832, "item_id": 48813677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813677", "by": "zmgsabst", "date": "2026-07-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS already supports Llama and GLM in its Bedrock service for hosted models.", "excerpt": "AWS already supports Llama and GLM in its Bedrock service for hosted models. They\u2019re much cheaper to run, eg, Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B is 5-10x cheaper than Sonnet 5. https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/ Say you have 20% of usecases that require the more expensive model \u2014 but in 80% you could just use Llama instead of Sonnet (eg, for basic queries of a document). That saves 80% of that 80%, or 65% of your total bill", "context": "", "use_case": "hosted model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"}, {"id": 780684721, "item_id": 48792795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792795", "by": "csaba-boros", "date": "2026-07-05", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "enterprise-grade LLM integrations built on AWS Bedrock", "excerpt": "Remote: Yes (US and EU time zones) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS (certified), Gen AI / RAG (AWS Bedrock), DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, microservices, full-stack Website: https://www.boroscsaba.com/ R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.boroscsaba.com/assets/cv.pdf Email: boros.csaba94@gmail.com Github: https://github.com/boros-csaba Toptal: https://www.toptal.com/resume/boros-csaba Available for full-time or part-time contr", "context": "AWS-certified contractor", "use_case": "Gen AI and RAG solutions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 780261680, "item_id": 48766355, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766355", "by": "hrpnk", "date": "2026-07-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Wonder if this is a product decision or rather a limitation on GPUs. Their Inf2 instances require AWS Neuron [1]. Maybe porting models to run on their hardware takes too much time. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/neuron/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"}, {"id": 778061281, "item_id": 48628830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628830", "by": "helloplanets", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "you'll have to accept these terms regardless of the region", "excerpt": "Anthropic already explicitly communicated that they'll store and check all the data from Bedrock or any platform, even if you've selected zero data retention, if using Mythos class models. To use these models on any platform, you'll have to accept these terms regardless of the region. > Limited data retention and review as part of our safety work. Prompts submitted to, and outputs generated by, Mythos-class models ar", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 776550656, "item_id": 48534416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534416", "by": "lostmsu", "date": "2026-06-14", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Does Hetzner offer an alternative to Bedrock", "excerpt": "Is there a difference? Does Hetzner offer an alternative to Bedrock (3yo, came out basically same year)?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"}, {"id": 776549952, "item_id": 48534372, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534372", "by": "zmmmmm", "date": "2026-06-14", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Amazon went far out of their way to build a secure process around this", "excerpt": "it's pretty interesting in the sense that Amazon went far out of their way to build a secure process around this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html In theory, there currently isn't any technical mechanism for the retention Anthropic is requiring here to happen. Either Amazon is not being truthful (unlikely) or Anthropic is requiring them to significantly alter the architecture ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models"}, {"id": 776323025, "item_id": 48520189, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520189", "by": "eranation", "date": "2026-06-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "has partnership with them on AWS Bedrock.", "excerpt": "Amazon invests in Anthropic, and has partnership with them on AWS Bedrock. https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models"}, {"id": 775596224, "item_id": 48474764, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474764", "by": "voxic11", "date": "2026-06-10", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock doesn't offer zero data retention for openAI's latest models either", "excerpt": "Bedrock doesn't offer zero data retention for openAI's latest models either > For OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, classifier-flagged traffic will be retained for up to 30 days for automated offline abuse detection https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-detection.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"}, {"id": 774263361, "item_id": 48391460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391460", "by": "rushcar", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Vertex / Bedrock have zero prompt logging", "excerpt": "There are differences. Vertex / Bedrock have zero prompt logging for Opus 4.8. Anthropic logs prompts for 30 days. source: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.8/providers", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 774258912, "item_id": 48391182, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391182", "by": "KronisLV", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I wouldn't willingly pick Bedrock", "excerpt": "> Deepseek has some models in Bedrock. Just looked into it, seems like at most they have just 3.2, not 4: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/ Looking around their catalogue more, most of their models seem quite outdated, aside from the OpenAI and Anthropic ones (but those get more expensive). I wouldn't willingly pick Bedrock and would instead throw money at OpenRouter, that has both a bunch of providers, as well", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing"}, {"id": 773919344, "item_id": 48369959, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369959", "by": "stymaar", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> We do not work in the US and have strong requirements for the data to stay in our country, which Bedrock gives us control over. It doesn't actually. The US can request data from whatever country US companies store it, and companies must comply. So if you have strong requirements for data to stay in your country, using a US provider, whatever it is, is out of question no matter what the company's marketing claims (t", "context": "works outside the US with data residency requirements", "use_case": "hosting models with data residency", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 773906272, "item_id": 48369142, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369142", "by": "a_bonobo", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can use Claude and Copilot via AWS Bedrock, and there are VSCode plugins for that", "excerpt": "You can use Claude and Copilot via AWS Bedrock, and there are VSCode plugins for that https://dev.to/aws-builders/setting-up-aws-bedrock-with-claude-5f67", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold"}, {"id": 773873601, "item_id": 48367100, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367100", "by": "onion2k", "date": "2026-06-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "and in Bedrock", "excerpt": "Claude is already available as both a pass-through to Anthropic's servers from AWS and in Bedrock. https://aws.amazon.com/claude-platform/ I imagine they're not thrilled that their first mover advantage has gone now, but they'll have seen it coming a mile off.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 773836608, "item_id": 48364788, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364788", "by": "zmmmmm", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "But it seems tremendously unlikely with how explicit they are being with it.", "excerpt": "They could be lying with all this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html But it seems tremendously unlikely with how explicit they are being with it. It is clearly one of the top selling features for the service.", "context": "", "use_case": "Managed AI model hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 773829552, "item_id": 48364347, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364347", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "So we use Bedrock.", "excerpt": "In contrast to Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, AWS has never done anything close to sneaking in unwanted training opt-outs after the fact. They are the only ones I trust not to do that so far. And their terms are extremely clear on that, no fuzzy language. Exactly what we want to see. So we use Bedrock.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosted model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 773825760, "item_id": 48364110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364110", "by": "easton", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The AWS pricing page says 10% more than OpenAI", "excerpt": "The AWS pricing page says 10% more than OpenAI, which is probably because they\u2019re forcing all inference through the US and data residency is at a 10% premium from the model vendors for whatever reason (because you\u2019ll pay for it). If they put in a global endpoint like with Claude (or OpenAI directly) then it\u2019ll probably match the direct pricing, if the pattern holds. (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/, scroll to", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"}, {"id": 773782208, "item_id": 48361388, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361388", "by": "philipkglass", "date": "2026-06-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "AWS Bedrock offers a mixture of proprietary and open-weights models", "excerpt": "AWS Bedrock offers a mixture of proprietary and open-weights models (DeepSeek, Nemotron, gpt-oss, etc.): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-cards.html", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)"}, {"id": 773345728, "item_id": 48334108, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334108", "by": "jasonvorhe", "date": "2026-05-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: \"The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it.\" Highly qualified leadership detected. Also: Banks have the moral high ground, apparently. Stopped reading after it circled right back to this British NGO's fraudulent \"study\" that almost all of these stories are based", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AWS reportedly to tuck Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand"}, {"id": 773168545, "item_id": 48323034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323034", "by": "auspiv", "date": "2026-05-29", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Very important for bedrock deployments", "excerpt": "Wow, not one mention of the env vars that have a far greater influence on how the models actually work under the hood - https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars Very important for bedrock deployments and other not-as-standard deployments Key for how I've deployed it - disable adaptive thinking, max thinking tokens, disable telemetry, etc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code \u2013 Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"}, {"id": 769803633, "item_id": 48112727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112727", "by": "Manouchehri", "date": "2026-05-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "It\u2019s included for Claude models on Bedrock. Initially that wasn\u2019t the case, until April 2024. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/aws-activate-credits-now-accepted-for-third-party-models-on-amazon-bedrock/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Platform on AWS"}, {"id": 769513937, "item_id": 48094621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094621", "by": "etothet", "date": "2026-05-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the comparison of running an Anthropic model in Bedrock vs. Claude Code is not apples-to-apples", "excerpt": "There are many reasons to dislike AWS and many reasons to stay away from it (and the criticisms in the article about support resonate with me), but a few things in the article stood out to me as a bit misleading: First, the comparison of running an Anthropic model in Bedrock vs. Claude Code is not apples-to-apples. With Bedrock pay API pricing (or whatever negotiated pricing AWS and the vendor agreed to), just like t", "context": "", "use_case": "running Anthropic models", "switched_from": "", "story": "I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left"}, {"id": 768295360, "item_id": 48018460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018460", "by": "killingtime74", "date": "2026-05-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I understand that most of the cloud providers run the llms on their own infra, like AWS Bedrock", "excerpt": "I understand that most of the cloud providers run the llms on their own infra, like AWS Bedrock https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI"}, {"id": 767745824, "item_id": 47984114, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984114", "by": "indianmouse", "date": "2026-05-02", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Any alternative to bedrock?", "excerpt": "Any alternative to bedrock? I'm ok to pay for GPUs and currently trying vast.ai, I just need the firepower and I'll use it for my org's usage and the way I want to using opensource models. I don't want to policing or get locked down or throttled based on my usage or volume. One flat fee and pricing. The reason is that I currently don't have the necessary infra available (though working towards acquiring GPUs), I want", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock"}, {"id": 767318753, "item_id": 47957422, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957422", "by": "Atotalnoob", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "They are pretty much exactly the same in my experience", "excerpt": "I\u2019m pretty sure it has the ability to browse the web. It can use playwright, web fetch, etc\u2026 I use bedrock at work and Claude subscription at home. They are pretty much exactly the same in my experience Or do you mean the Claude in chrome plugin? Bedrock doesn\u2019t have that, but in my experience it doesn\u2019t work that well. Neither does the Claude managed agents or ultra plan.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude.ai and API Unavailable"}, {"id": 767300480, "item_id": 47956280, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956280", "by": "pbgcp2026", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Bedrock Converse API does accept up to 4 cachePoint's but does NOT cache and returns zeroes", "excerpt": "\" it supports prompt caching\" May I ask if you checked that? I use \"{\"cachePoint\": { \"type\": \"default\" }\" and I found 2 things: * 1) even if stated in the Doco, Bedrock Converse API does not allow 1hr expiry time, only 5m - gives error when attempted; * 2) Bedrock Converse API does accept up to 4 cachePoint's but does NOT cache and returns zeroes. LOL. It was confirmed by some other people on Github.", "context": "", "use_case": "Prompt caching via API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral Medium 3.5"}, {"id": 767195472, "item_id": 47949717, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949717", "by": "Eridrus", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can get the frontier models hosted in Stockholm & Ireland", "excerpt": "You can get the frontier models hosted in Stockholm & Ireland: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-anthropic-claude-opus-4-7.html There's probably a very good business to be made of bringing close to frontier knowledge and finetuning recipes and infrastructure to enterprises that cannot hire that talent. But that's largely not a business that is going to be of a lot of interest to technolo", "context": "", "use_case": "EU-hosted frontier model access", "switched_from": "", "story": "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"}]}