Comment by bangaladore
Comment by bangaladore 16 hours ago
Yeah- given all top AI models are more and more generalists, as time goes on there is less and less reason to use one over another.
Comment by bangaladore 16 hours ago
Yeah- given all top AI models are more and more generalists, as time goes on there is less and less reason to use one over another.
> Bedrock
This sounds so enterprise. I've been wanting to talk to people that actually use it.
Why use Bedrock instead of OpenRouter, Fal, etc.? Doesn't that tie you down to Amazon forever?
Isn't the API worse? Aren't the p95 latencies worse?
The costs higher?
Given a choice between being “locked in” to a major cloud provider and trusting your business to a randomish little company, you are never going to get a compliance department to go for the latter. “no one ever got fired for choosing AWS”.
This is the API - it’s basically the same for all supported languages
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/code-library/latest/ug/python_3_...
Real companies aren’t concerned about cost as much as working with other real companies, compliance, etc and are comparing cost or opportunities between doing a thing and not doing a thing.
One of my specialties is call centers. Every call deflected by using AI vs talking to a human agent can save from $5 - $15.
Even saving money by allowing your cheaper human agents to handle a problem where they are using AI in the background, can save money. $15 saved can buy a lot of inference.
And the lock in boogeyman is something only geeks care about. Migrations from one provider to another costs so much money at even a medium scale they are hardly ever worth it between the costs, distractions from doing value added work, and risks of regressions and downtime.
You are “locked in” to your infrastructure if you have a bunch of VMs at your colo and you need to move.
Do you also suggest that people never use a Colo?
I’ve seen it take a year to move a bunch of VMs from a Colo.
Bedrock is a lot more than just a standard endpoint. Also, the security guarantees.
It’s really even easier than that. I already do all my work on AWS and use Bedrock that hosts every popular model and its own except for OpenAIs closed source models.
I have a reusable library that lets me choose between any of the models I choose to support or any new model in the same family that uses the same request format.
Every project I’ve done, it’s a simple matter of changing a config setting and choosing a different model.
If the model provider goes out of business, it’s not like the model is going to disappear from AWS the next day.