Definition
Plain language
Amazon's cloud service for running large language models through an API.
As stated in the literature
Amazon Web Services' managed foundation-model API platform, used as the inference backend for several frontier LLMs including Anthropic's Claude family.
Also called: Bedrock
Why it matters: Bedrock is one of the main ways enterprises access frontier models without changing their cloud provider or data-residency story.
For example, a startup might call Claude through Bedrock instead of going to Anthropic directly so it can keep its data inside its AWS environment.