AWS Bedrock Marketplace: One-Stop Shop for Foundation Models

AWS Bedrock Marketplace: One-Stop Shop for Foundation Models

Finding the right AI model used to mean navigating multiple providers, APIs, and pricing structures. AWS Bedrock Marketplace, expanded significantly at re:Invent 2025, now offers 100+ foundation models from a single interface with unified billing.

Available Model Providers (2025)

Provider Models Specialization
Amazon Nova Micro, Lite, Pro, Premier Cost-effective, multimodal
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Haiku, Opus Reasoning, code, safety
Meta Llama 3.2, 3.3 Open weights, customizable
Mistral Mistral Large, Small European, multilingual
Cohere Command R, R+ RAG, enterprise search
AI21 Jamba 1.5 Long context (256K)

Unified API Access

import boto3

bedrock = boto3.client('bedrock-runtime')

# Same API, different models
models = [
    'amazon.nova-pro-v1',
    'anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-v2',
    'meta.llama3-2-90b-instruct-v1',
]

for model_id in models:
    response = bedrock.converse(
        modelId=model_id,
        messages=[{
            'role': 'user',
            'content': [{'text': 'Explain serverless in one sentence.'}]
        }]
    )
    print(f"{model_id}: {response['output']['message']['content'][0]['text']}")

New Marketplace Features

  • Model Cards: Detailed benchmarks, use cases, and pricing comparison
  • One-Click Enablement: Enable models instantly without separate contracts
  • Consolidated Billing: All model usage on single AWS bill
  • Cross-Region Inference: Automatic failover across regions
  • Custom Model Import: Bring fine-tuned models to Marketplace

Pricing Comparison Tool

# Cost per 1M tokens (approximate, Dec 2025)

Model                    Input     Output
─────────────────────────────────────────
Nova Micro              $0.035    $0.14
Nova Lite               $0.06     $0.24
Nova Pro                $0.80     $3.20
Claude 3.5 Haiku        $0.80     $4.00
Claude 3.5 Sonnet       $3.00     $15.00
Llama 3.2 90B           $0.72     $0.72

# Use case recommendation:
# - Classification: Nova Micro (cheapest)
# - Complex reasoning: Claude Sonnet (best quality)
# - Open source needs: Llama 3.2 (no vendor lock-in)

Enterprise Benefits

Bedrock Marketplace eliminates vendor management overhead. One security review, one compliance framework, one API to maintain—with access to every major foundation model.

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Marcus is a defense and aerospace journalist covering military aviation, fighter aircraft, and defense technology. Former defense industry analyst with expertise in tactical aviation systems and next-generation aircraft programs.

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