# Amazon Bedrock

## Prerequisites

- Subscribe to Cohere's models on Amazon Bedrock. For more details, [see here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-access.html).
- AWS Python SDK. To install it, run `pip install boto3`. You can find [more details here](https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/quickstart.html#install-boto3).
- Configured authentication credentials for AWS. For more details, [see this document](https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/quickstart.html#configuration).

Alternatively, use Cohere's AWS SDK; for more details, [see this GitHub repo](https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-aws/) and [related notebooks](https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-aws/tree/main/notebooks/bedrock).

## Embeddings

Invoke Cohere's embed model using Bedrock in order to generate embeddings with the following code:

## Related pages

- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cohere](../index.md)
- [Cohere API](./cohere-api-index.md)
- [Cohere Labs](./cohere-labs-index.md)
- [Cohere Platform](./cohere-platform-index.md)
- [Cookbooks](./cookbooks-index.md)
- [Deployment Options](./deployment-options-index.md)
- [Embeddings (Vectors, Search, Retrieval)](./embeddings-vectors-search-retrieval-index.md)
- [Get Started](./get-started-index.md)
- [Going to Production](./going-to-production-index.md)

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