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For founders building AI products from first prototype to global scale

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A founder’s dilemma

You know the tradeoff: Move fast and outrun your runway, or build it right and watch a competitor beat you to market. What if you didn't have to choose?

Whether you're sketching your first architecture or pushing toward a working MVP, you get the flexibility to swap AI models without rewriting your app, an AI-powered coding assistant that turns specs into shipping code, and purpose-built chips that keep your compute costs honest. It all runs on infrastructure that handles your first demo and your first million users the same way. And when enterprise buyers start asking about security? You'll have 143 security standards and compliance certifications backing your infrastructure before they finish the question.

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Your AI stack. Zero compromises.

Experiment across models. No lock-in.

Access Claude, Llama, Mistral, and hundreds more foundation models through a single API. Try what works for your use case today, and switch when something better ships tomorrow. Fine-tune when you're ready to own the model.

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Ship production code in hours, not weeks.

Describe what you want to build and Kiro generates the requirements, design, and working code. It's an AI-powered IDE that goes beyond autocomplete, so your team spends less time configuring and more time on the product that'll win customers.

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Ship multimodal with text, images, and video through one API.

Stop stitching together separate services for every content type. Amazon Nova handles text, images, and video through a single multimodal API, so you can build the product you actually imagined—not a stripped-down version of it.

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Pay for compute that's built for AI.

Purpose-built AI chips for the workloads startups actually run. AWS Trainium handles model training and AWS Inferentia handles inference, so you can stretch your runway further instead of burning it on general-purpose hardware.

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