Today, Cohere announced the company has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency in the categories of Consulting Services, Generative AI applications, Foundational Models and App Development, and Infrastructure and Data. This specialization recognizes Cohere as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the AWS Partner Network (APN) drive the advancement of services, tools, and infrastructure pivotal for implementing generative AI technologies at scale.

This marks another step in Cohere's strategy to meet customers where they store their data by providing enterprises with cloud choice. Developers and businesses can access a range of Cohere’s language models in a private environment via AWS. Cohere’s models are currently supported on two AWS services: Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies via a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities organizations need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

Achieving the AWS Generative AI Competency differentiates Cohere as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success supporting a range of business solutions. Cohere possesses the experience and expertise demonstrated through successful projects addressing customer challenges using generative AI solutions. These solutions enable digital transformation by augmenting the customer experience, delivering hyper-personalized and engaging content, streamlining workflows, and delivering actionable results powered by generative AI technology from AWS.

“Achieving the AWS Generative AI Competency enables Cohere to better serve enterprises with our state-of-the-art Command and Embed models, and advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities to deliver real business value. Our team is dedicated to helping enterprise customers build solutions along with the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides,” said Vinod Devan, Global Head of Partnerships at Cohere.

The AWS Competency Program aims to assist customers in connecting with AWS Partners, like Cohere, who possess extensive knowledge and technical expertise in using AWS technologies and best practices to adopt generative AI. These AWS Partners facilitate the seamless integration and deployment of AWS-based solutions to meet the unique business needs of all customers, from startups to global enterprises.