Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the capabilities of its Amazon Bedrock service within AWS GovCloud (US) by adding support for OpenAI's open-weight GPT OSS models and Nvidia Nemotron models. This development enables U.S. government agencies, the defense and intelligence community, and their contractors to access advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Specifically, Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI's GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and Nvidia Nemotron models (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B). These models are designed to facilitate the building and scaling of generative AI applications, offering a diverse range of high-performance foundation models through a single, unified API.
The integration addresses the critical need for government agencies to utilize cutting-edge AI while maintaining stringent security, compliance, and data residency standards. AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated set of AWS Regions specifically designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads, with physical locations in the United States and administration exclusively by U.S. citizens. This environment helps customers meet various compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP High, DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Impact Levels 2, 4, and 5, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS). Amazon Bedrock, as a fully managed service, ensures that model inference runs entirely on AWS-operated infrastructure within the AWS GovCloud (US) isolation boundary, further guaranteeing data security and compliance.
This expansion is expected to significantly impact how U.S. government agencies approach mission-critical tasks. Access to these advanced open-weight models is essential for applications such as intelligence analysis, mission planning, acquisition and contract document review, security log analysis, and compliance automation. By providing these capabilities within a secure and compliant framework, government entities can accelerate their adoption of AI without compromising sensitive data. The flexibility offered by using OpenAI's and Nvidia's latest models alongside other leading AI models through a unified API allows agencies to select the most suitable model for each specific use case without requiring changes to their application code, fostering innovation and efficiency in public sector operations.