Today, we are delighted to announce that DeepSeek R1 distilled Llama and Qwen models are available through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now release DeepSeek AI’s first-generation frontier design, DeepSeek-R1, in addition to the distilled versions ranging from 1.5 to 70 billion criteria to develop, experiment, and properly scale your generative AI concepts on AWS.

In this post, we show how to begin with DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can follow similar steps to release the distilled variations of the designs too.

Overview of DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 is a large language model (LLM) established by DeepSeek AI that utilizes reinforcement discovering to enhance reasoning capabilities through a multi-stage training process from a DeepSeek-V3-Base structure. A key identifying feature is its support learning (RL) step, which was utilized to refine the design’s actions beyond the standard pre-training and fine-tuning process. By integrating RL, DeepSeek-R1 can adjust better to user feedback and goals, eventually boosting both significance and clarity. In addition, DeepSeek-R1 employs a chain-of-thought (CoT) approach, meaning it’s equipped to break down complex queries and reason through them in a detailed manner. This assisted thinking procedure enables the model to produce more precise, transparent, and detailed answers. This model combines RL-based fine-tuning with CoT capabilities, aiming to produce structured actions while focusing on interpretability and user interaction. With its wide-ranging abilities DeepSeek-R1 has actually caught the market’s attention as a versatile text-generation design that can be incorporated into numerous workflows such as representatives, logical reasoning and data interpretation tasks.

DeepSeek-R1 uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and is 671 billion parameters in size. The MoE architecture allows activation of 37 billion parameters, making it possible for efficient reasoning by routing questions to the most appropriate expert “clusters.” This approach permits the design to focus on various problem domains while maintaining general effectiveness. DeepSeek-R1 needs at least 800 GB of HBM memory in FP8 format for reasoning. In this post, we will use an ml.p5e.48 xlarge instance to deploy the design. ml.p5e.48 xlarge comes with 8 Nvidia H200 GPUs offering 1128 GB of GPU memory.

DeepSeek-R1 distilled models bring the thinking capabilities of the main R1 design to more effective architectures based upon popular open designs like Qwen (1.5 B, 7B, 14B, and 32B) and Llama (8B and 70B). Distillation describes a procedure of training smaller, more effective designs to mimic the habits and reasoning patterns of the bigger DeepSeek-R1 design, utilizing it as an instructor model.

You can deploy DeepSeek-R1 model either through SageMaker JumpStart or Bedrock Marketplace. Because DeepSeek-R1 is an emerging model, we suggest deploying this design with guardrails in place. In this blog, we will utilize Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to present safeguards, avoid hazardous material, and evaluate designs against key security requirements. At the time of composing this blog site, for DeepSeek-R1 deployments on SageMaker JumpStart and Bedrock Marketplace, Bedrock Guardrails supports just the ApplyGuardrail API. You can create numerous guardrails tailored to various use cases and apply them to the DeepSeek-R1 model, improving user experiences and standardizing security controls across your generative AI applications.

Prerequisites

To deploy the DeepSeek-R1 model, you require access to an ml.p5e instance. To check if you have quotas for P5e, open the Service Quotas console and under AWS Services, pick Amazon SageMaker, and verify you’re utilizing ml.p5e.48 xlarge for endpoint usage. Make certain that you have at least one ml.P5e.48 xlarge circumstances in the AWS Region you are releasing. To ask for a limitation boost, develop a limit increase demand and reach out to your account team.

Because you will be releasing this design with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, make certain you have the proper AWS Identity and Gain Access To Management (IAM) permissions to use Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. For instructions, see Set up authorizations to utilize guardrails for content filtering.

Implementing guardrails with the ApplyGuardrail API

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails permits you to introduce safeguards, material, and assess designs against key security requirements. You can implement security procedures for the DeepSeek-R1 model using the Amazon Bedrock ApplyGuardrail API. This allows you to use guardrails to examine user inputs and design responses released on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can produce a guardrail using the Amazon Bedrock console or the API. For the example code to develop the guardrail, see the GitHub repo.

The basic flow includes the following steps: First, the system receives an input for the design. This input is then processed through the ApplyGuardrail API. If the input passes the guardrail check, it’s sent to the model for inference. After getting the design’s output, another guardrail check is used. If the output passes this final check, it’s returned as the result. However, if either the input or output is intervened by the guardrail, a message is returned showing the nature of the intervention and whether it happened at the input or output stage. The examples showcased in the following sections show reasoning utilizing this API.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

Amazon Bedrock Marketplace offers you access to over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation designs (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock. To gain access to DeepSeek-R1 in Amazon Bedrock, total the following actions:

1. On the Amazon Bedrock console, select Model catalog under Foundation models in the navigation pane. At the time of composing this post, [forum.batman.gainedge.org](https://forum.batman.gainedge.org/index.php?action=profile