
Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are offering access to DeepSeek’s low-cost, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) training models.
Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), on Thursday said developers can deploy DeepSeek’s R1 models in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI. Additionally, developers can use AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia to deploy DeepSeek-R1-Distill models via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or Amazon SageMaker AI, according to AWS.
“It goes back to our overall strategy: We think no one model is going to meet the customers’ needs from end to end,” Ankur Mehrotra, director of Amazon SageMaker AI, said in an interview. Last week, DeepSeek was the No. 1 free app on Apple Inc. and Google’s app stores.
“With AWS, you can use DeepSeek-R1 models to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI ideas by using this powerful, cost-efficient model with minimal infrastructure investment. You can also confidently drive generative AI innovation by building on AWS services that are uniquely designed for security,” AWS said in a blog post. AWS already provides AI app developers access to models from Anthropic – in which Amazon has bet $8 billion – Meta Platforms Inc. and others.
On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. said R1 was available through Azure AI Foundry and GitHub.
“As part of Azure AI Foundry, DeepSeek R1 is accessible on a trusted, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform, enabling businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI while meeting SLAs, security, and responsible AI commitments — all backed by Microsoft’s reliability and innovation,” Asha Sharma, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI Platform, said in a blog post.
“One of the key advantages of using DeepSeek R1 or any other model on Azure AI Foundry is the speed at which developers can experiment, iterate, and integrate AI into their workflows,” Sharma wrote.
The addition to Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and GitHub will let developers tinker R1 while using Microsoft’s built-in model evaluation tools to compare outputs and benchmark performance.
Microsoft, which has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, added it has put R1 through red teaming and safety evaluations, including automated assessments of model behavior and security reviews to minimize potential risks.
The availability of R1 through AWS and Azure comes despite a growing movement to ban the model’s use by the U.S. Navy, Congressional offices, and app stores in Italy and Ireland. The actions were taken out of personal data and security concerns with how DeepSeek, based in China, collects and stores personal data.