In my previous post, I detailed the process of importing open-source models, such as DeepSeek R1 from Hugging Face, into Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service offered by AWS that gives users access to foundational models from top AI firms and Amazon. This post will explain how to access the AI models through the Bedrock API from third-party apps like VS Code or Cursor. Specifically, when using AI models like Claude Sonnet 3.5 for coding, accessing it through Amazon Bedrock offers enhanced security compared to Anthropic or model hub APIs such as OpenRouter.

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In a previous post, I demonstrated how to run DeepSeek R1 on your Mac or PC. Today, I will guide you through importing the Chinese open-source model that has outperformed OpenAI’s top models in various benchmarks from Hugging Face—the GitHub equivalent for hosting, sharing, and deploying open-source AI models. Hugging Face provides the hf-bedrock-import tool for this purpose, which is more straightforward than the aws bedrock create-model-import-job command.

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