Beware of AWS Bedrock’s Legacy and End-Of-Life Models

Right now, technology is advancing at an incredible pace, never before seen.

Unfortunately, that comes with some drawbacks as well.

As quickly as AWS Bedrock is adding new models, they are depreciating models, models you might be depending on.

One of the things I love about AWS Bedrock is that they simplify hosting models, but only the models in their catalog.

So if you use their incredibly convenient service to spin up a model in their catalog, just be aware that that same model could soon become “Legacy” or even worse, “EOL”(end of life).

Here is a quote directly from their docs.

On, or soon after the EOL date, the model is no longer available for use in all AWS Regions and requests made to this version will **fail**, unless there is a private arrangement between you and the provider for continued access. You will need to migrate to the latest model by updating your application code before the EOL date. Migration will not happen automatically.

Just keep this in mind when choosing how you design your infrastructure.

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