Amazon Web Services has added Bedrock Studio to the lineup of offerings at Bedrock, its cloud-based managed service for artificial intelligence. Available beginning this week in public preview, Bedrock Studio aims to greatly simplify the development of artificial intelligence apps for its subscribers, allowing them to get going “within minutes,” according to AWS. Developers can log in to the Amazon Bedrock Studio web experience using single sign-on (SSO) company credentials “and instantly start experimenting with Bedrock FMs and tools to build applications,” the cloud giant says, describing the studio as a “rapid prototyping environment” for generative AI.

The web-based Bedrock Studio provides an environment outside of the AWS Management Console where enterprises can allow workers to collaborate and experiment while still having access to Bedrock tools including Agents, Knowledge Bases and Guardrails.

Once logged in, they will be guided through the process of evaluating, analyzing and fine-tuning generative AI models from Bedrock partners including Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral and Meta, among others.

Bedrock Studio allows developers to “test different model settings and guardrails and integrate outside data sources and APIs,” writes TechCrunch, noting that the platform also “automatically deploys the relevant AWS resources as developers request them” while, as a security measure, ensuring “apps and data never leave the signed-in AWS account.”

Voicebot.ai writes that Bedrock Studio “marks a new stage for Amazon’s efforts to cultivate generative AI developers on its platform” while noting the company has been “expanding and enhancing Amazon Bedrock at a steady clip” since it was launched in general availability in September 2023, most recently adding Custom Model Import and Model Evaluation tools.

“Amazon has plenty of competition for creating generative AI developer environments from the likes of Google and Microsoft Azure,” Voicebot.ai notes, drawing a comparison between Bedrock Studio and a “new rival launched just last week, the GitHub Copilot Workspace.” The Microsoft-affiliated developer environment “builds on the successful GitHub Copilot generative AI pair programmer introduced in 2022 and may prove stiff competition for Amazon Bedrock Studio.”