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Amazon (AWS)

Amazon (AWS) is a cloud provider and AI model developer headquartered in Seattle, Washington1. This catalog lists 1 open model release and 1 software project from Amazon (AWS), under licenses including the Apache License 2.0.

Documented roles: Cloud provider · Model developer · Developer platform · Consumer products

Amazon runs retail, advertising, and cloud businesses and reports three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Through AWS it offers AI services, including Amazon Bedrock for building generative AI applications and its own Amazon Nova models.123

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Using this organization’s offerings

Ownership, delivery, and openness answer different questions. Publicly traded does not mean open source; privately held does not mean closed.

Intended users

AWS presents Amazon Bedrock for teams, from startups to large enterprises, building generative AI applications and agents, and Amazon Nova models for organizations of all sizes.69Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Hosted and self-hosted access

Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that offers foundation models from Amazon and other providers, including Anthropic, DeepSeek, OpenAI, and xAI, through AWS APIs. Amazon's Nova 2 models are accessed through Bedrock and can be customized through fine-tuning.710Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Restrictions and review limits

Bedrock prices depend on modality, provider, and model and vary by AWS Region. AWS documents Nova access through Bedrock, and Amazon's Hugging Face organization lists other models, such as Chronos, but no Nova weights. This profile is not a complete product or rights audit.81011Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

Key facts

Legal name
Amazon.com, Inc.1
Ownership (separate from openness)
Publicly traded

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
Delaware corporation1
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington1
Founded
19941
Sectors
Cloud, Frontier models, Agents, Enterprise

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Offers hosted models and AI services through AWS. This catalog has no record of public weights for Amazon Nova models, and the Nova page does not mention open weights.32

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.

Amazon (AWS): hosted model products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Amazon Nova (external site: aws.amazon.com)Hosted model APIAmazon's own foundation models (for example Nova 2 Lite and Nova 2 Sonic), which AWS documents as accessed through Amazon Bedrock, and related services such as Nova Act.35Sep 29, 2026

Other products

Amazon (AWS): other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Amazon Bedrock (external site: aws.amazon.com)Cloud platformAWS service for building generative AI applications and agents with foundation models from Amazon and other providers, used through an AWS account; pricing depends on the model, provider, and modality.24Sep 29, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (1)

Model releases (1)

  • Chronos-2Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight

Frameworks (1)

Notable documented facts

  • AWS is reported as one of Amazon's three operating segments. The Form 10-K lists Matthew S. Garman as CEO of Amazon Web Services.1
  • Amazon says the Nova portfolio is built on AI technology first developed for internal uses such as Alexa+, Amazon Ads, and Amazon Stores.3

In the news

Dated, sourced updates in this catalog's news that mention this entry.
  1. · Release

    Amazon announces an Apache 2.0 release of TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium

    Amazon said TorchNeuron, which it describes as running existing PyTorch code on its Trainium chips without a rewrite by plugging into PyTorch's standard mechanism for registering new hardware, would be released under the Apache 2.0 license at PyTorch Conference North America on October 20, 2026. Amazon says TorchNeuron supports Trainium2 and Trainium3 and that it is contributing changes upstream to PyTorch. The aws-neuron/torch-neuronx repository on GitHub is public, lists the Apache License 2.0, and describes itself as a native PyTorch backend for AWS Trainium. A Hugging Face blog post dated October 19 describes running Hugging Face models with it. USASI has not tested TorchNeuron.

  2. · Release

    Structured outputs for Anthropic Claude models become generally available on Amazon Bedrock

    In an October 19, 2026 post on the AWS Machine Learning Blog, AWS said structured outputs for Claude on Amazon Bedrock is now generally available for all Anthropic Claude models, on both the bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpoints. AWS says the feature uses constrained decoding to enforce a developer's JSON schema during token generation, and that setting strict: true on a tool constrains the model's tool input to match its schema. The post also says some JSON Schema keywords, including numeric and string length constraints, are accepted but not enforced, so applications should validate those values themselves.

  3. · Policy

    White House science summit lists industry partners in the Genesis Mission Consortium

    On October 8, 2026 the White House published a fact sheet on science initiatives announced at its "Science: A New Golden Age" summit. It says eleven industry partners committed SI-for-science tools and compute credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, and names NVIDIA, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AMP, Emerald AI, AWS, Armada, Crusoe, and Micron. The same fact sheet says NIH, DOE, and Biohub launched a virtual biology initiative to build data and models for virtual cells. The fact sheet describes announcements and commitments rather than an executive order.

  4. · Release

    AWS releases Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model, under Apache 2.0

    On October 1, 2026 the Strands team at AWS announced Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter "decision model" that picks between supplied options or assigns a score with a confidence value instead of generating text. The announcement says the model starts from the Qwen3.5-2B model with its language-model head replaced by a small pointer head and the base fine-tuned with a LoRA adapter, and that it is meant for agent workflows such as those built with the Strands Harness SDK. The code, training data, and scripts are published on GitHub and the weights on Hugging Face; the repository and model card both list the Apache 2.0 license. AWS describes it as a Strands Labs project and says it is unsuited to text-generation tasks such as coding, chat, or summarization.

  5. · Research

    Amazon releases ALoDLM-1.7B and ALoDLM-8B diffusion language models for non-commercial research

    Amazon has published ALoDLM-1.7B and ALoDLM-8B on Hugging Face, diffusion language models initialized from the corresponding Qwen3 backbones that generate text and code by repeatedly applying shared transformer layers and adaptively allocating computation across token positions. The model card says the weights are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license for non-commercial research, with code in the amazon-science/ALoDLM repository. The accompanying paper, "ALoDLM: Adaptively Looped Diffusion Language Models," was submitted to arXiv on October 3, 2026. USASI has not tested either model.

What this catalog does not know

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  • Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.

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U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Amazon.com, Inc. is a Delaware corporation whose principal executive offices are at 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, per its Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025. AWS is a segment of Amazon.com, Inc. and is covered by this record.1

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (external site: sec.gov)

    Amazon.com, Inc. (U.S. SEC filing) · Filing · published Feb 6, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
  3. 3.
    Generative foundation model – Amazon Nova – AWS (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  4. 4.
    Amazon Bedrock Pricing (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    What is Amazon Nova 2? - Amazon Nova (external site: docs.aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    Amazon Bedrock (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    Overview - Amazon Bedrock User Guide (external site: docs.aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  8. 8.
    Amazon Bedrock Pricing (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  9. 9.
    Amazon Nova (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  10. 10.
    What is Amazon Nova 2? - Amazon Nova (external site: docs.aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  11. 11.
    Amazon on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)

    Hugging Face · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  12. 12.
    Official careers site (external site: amazon.jobs)

    Amazon · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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