Today, we are delighted to announce that DeepSeek R1 distilled Llama and Qwen designs are available through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now deploy DeepSeek AI's first-generation frontier model, DeepSeek-R1, together with the distilled versions varying from 1.5 to 70 billion criteria to construct, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI concepts on AWS.

In this post, we show how to get begun with DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can follow similar actions to deploy the distilled versions of the models too.

Overview of DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 is a big language model (LLM) established by DeepSeek AI that uses support finding out to boost thinking abilities through a multi-stage training procedure from a DeepSeek-V3-Base structure. An essential distinguishing feature is its support knowing (RL) step, which was utilized to refine the model's actions beyond the basic pre-training and fine-tuning process. By including RL, DeepSeek-R1 can adapt better to user feedback and goals, eventually boosting both significance and clearness. In addition, DeepSeek-R1 utilizes a chain-of-thought (CoT) technique, suggesting it's geared up to break down intricate queries and factor through them in a detailed manner. This directed thinking process permits the model to produce more precise, transparent, and detailed answers. This model combines RL-based fine-tuning with CoT capabilities, aiming to produce structured responses while focusing on interpretability and user interaction. With its comprehensive capabilities DeepSeek-R1 has actually recorded the market's attention as a versatile text-generation model that can be integrated into numerous workflows such as representatives, sensible reasoning and information analysis tasks.

DeepSeek-R1 utilizes a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and is 671 billion criteria in size. The MoE architecture enables activation of 37 billion specifications, enabling effective reasoning by routing queries to the most appropriate professional "clusters." This technique permits the model to focus on different issue domains while maintaining overall performance. DeepSeek-R1 needs at least 800 GB of HBM memory in FP8 format for reasoning. In this post, we will use an ml.p5e.48 xlarge instance to deploy the model. ml.p5e.48 xlarge comes with 8 Nvidia H200 GPUs providing 1128 GB of GPU memory.

DeepSeek-R1 distilled models bring the thinking capabilities of the main R1 design to more efficient architectures based on popular open models like Qwen (1.5 B, 7B, 14B, and 32B) and Llama (8B and 70B). Distillation refers to a process of training smaller, setiathome.berkeley.edu more efficient models to simulate the habits and reasoning patterns of the bigger DeepSeek-R1 model, using it as an instructor model.

You can release DeepSeek-R1 design either through SageMaker JumpStart or Bedrock Marketplace. Because DeepSeek-R1 is an emerging model, we recommend releasing this model with guardrails in location. In this blog site, we will utilize Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to introduce safeguards, prevent harmful content, and examine designs against essential safety criteria. At the time of composing this blog, for DeepSeek-R1 implementations on SageMaker JumpStart and Bedrock Marketplace, Bedrock Guardrails supports just the ApplyGuardrail API. You can create numerous guardrails tailored to various use cases and use them to the DeepSeek-R1 design, improving user experiences and standardizing safety controls throughout your generative AI applications.

Prerequisites

To release the DeepSeek-R1 design, you require access to an ml.p5e instance. To examine if you have quotas for P5e, open the Service Quotas console and under AWS Services, choose Amazon SageMaker, and validate you're using ml.p5e.48 xlarge for endpoint usage. Make certain that you have at least one ml.P5e.48 xlarge circumstances in the AWS Region you are deploying. To ask for a limitation increase, create a limit increase demand and connect to your account team.

Because you will be deploying this design with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, make certain you have the correct AWS Identity and Gain Access To Management (IAM) approvals to utilize Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. For instructions, see Set up authorizations to use guardrails for content filtering.

Implementing guardrails with the ApplyGuardrail API

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails allows you to present safeguards, avoid hazardous content, and evaluate designs against crucial security requirements. You can execute precaution for the DeepSeek-R1 design using the Amazon Bedrock ApplyGuardrail API. This permits you to apply guardrails to evaluate user inputs and design responses deployed on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can develop a guardrail utilizing the Amazon Bedrock console or the API. For the example code to develop the guardrail, see the GitHub repo.

The basic circulation includes the following steps: First, the system gets an input for the design. This input is then processed through the ApplyGuardrail API. If the input passes the guardrail check, it's sent to the model for reasoning. After receiving the model's output, another guardrail check is used. If the output passes this last check, it's returned as the outcome. However, if either the input or output is stepped in by the guardrail, a message is returned showing the nature of the intervention and whether it occurred at the input or output phase. The examples showcased in the following sections demonstrate using this API.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

Amazon Bedrock Marketplace provides you access to over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation designs (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock. To gain access to DeepSeek-R1 in Amazon Bedrock, complete the following actions:

1. On the Amazon Bedrock console, choose Model brochure under Foundation designs in the navigation pane. At the time of writing this post, you can utilize the InvokeModel API to invoke the design. It doesn't support Converse APIs and other Amazon Bedrock tooling. 2. Filter for DeepSeek as a provider and select the DeepSeek-R1 model.

The design detail page offers essential details about the design's abilities, rates structure, and execution guidelines. You can discover detailed usage directions, consisting of sample API calls and code bits for integration. The model supports numerous text generation jobs, including material development, code generation, and concern answering, using its support learning optimization and CoT reasoning capabilities. The page also consists of implementation alternatives and licensing details to assist you begin with DeepSeek-R1 in your applications. 3. To begin utilizing DeepSeek-R1, select Deploy.

You will be prompted to set up the implementation details for DeepSeek-R1. The model ID will be pre-populated. 4. For Endpoint name, go into an endpoint name (in between 1-50 alphanumeric characters). 5. For Number of circumstances, get in a number of circumstances (in between 1-100). 6. For Instance type, choose your circumstances type. For optimal performance with DeepSeek-R1, a GPU-based instance type like ml.p5e.48 xlarge is suggested. Optionally, you can configure sophisticated security and infrastructure settings, consisting of virtual personal cloud (VPC) networking, service function approvals, and encryption settings. For a lot of utilize cases, the default settings will work well. However, for production releases, you may desire to evaluate these settings to line up with your company's security and compliance requirements. 7. Choose Deploy to begin using the model.

When the deployment is complete, you can evaluate DeepSeek-R1's abilities straight in the Amazon Bedrock play ground. 8. Choose Open in playground to access an interactive user interface where you can try out various prompts and adjust design criteria like temperature and maximum length. When using R1 with Bedrock's InvokeModel and Playground Console, utilize DeepSeek's chat template for optimum outcomes. For example, content for reasoning.

This is an outstanding way to explore the design's reasoning and text generation abilities before incorporating it into your applications. The playground offers immediate feedback, assisting you comprehend how the model responds to various inputs and letting you tweak your prompts for optimal results.

You can rapidly evaluate the design in the play ground through the UI. However, to invoke the deployed design programmatically with any Amazon Bedrock APIs, you require to get the endpoint ARN.

Run reasoning utilizing guardrails with the deployed DeepSeek-R1 endpoint

The following code example demonstrates how to carry out reasoning using a deployed DeepSeek-R1 model through Amazon Bedrock utilizing the invoke_model and ApplyGuardrail API. You can develop a guardrail using the Amazon Bedrock console or the API. For the example code to produce the guardrail, see the GitHub repo. After you have actually developed the guardrail, utilize the following code to implement guardrails. The script initializes the bedrock_runtime client, sets up reasoning parameters, and sends out a request to produce text based upon a user prompt.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 with SageMaker JumpStart

SageMaker JumpStart is an artificial intelligence (ML) hub with FMs, built-in algorithms, and prebuilt ML options that you can release with simply a few clicks. With SageMaker JumpStart, you can tailor pre-trained designs to your usage case, with your data, and deploy them into production utilizing either the UI or SDK.

Deploying DeepSeek-R1 model through SageMaker JumpStart uses 2 practical techniques: using the instinctive SageMaker JumpStart UI or implementing programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. Let's explore both techniques to help you choose the approach that best fits your requirements.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 through SageMaker JumpStart UI

Complete the following steps to deploy DeepSeek-R1 using SageMaker JumpStart:

1. On the SageMaker console, pick Studio in the navigation pane. 2. First-time users will be prompted to develop a domain. 3. On the SageMaker Studio console, pick JumpStart in the navigation pane.

The design browser shows available models, with details like the provider name and design abilities.

4. Search for DeepSeek-R1 to see the DeepSeek-R1 model card. Each design card reveals crucial details, consisting of:

- Model name

• Provider name
• Task category (for instance, Text Generation). Bedrock Ready badge (if suitable), showing that this design can be signed up with Amazon Bedrock, enabling you to utilize Amazon Bedrock APIs to invoke the design
  
  5. Choose the design card to view the design details page.
  
  The model details page includes the following details:
  
  - The design name and supplier details. Deploy button to deploy the model. About and Notebooks tabs with detailed details
  
  The About tab consists of important details, such as:
  
  - Model description.
• License details.
• Technical requirements.
• Usage guidelines
  
  Before you deploy the model, it's recommended to examine the model details and license terms to confirm compatibility with your use case.
  
  6. Choose Deploy to proceed with deployment.
  
  7. For Endpoint name, use the immediately created name or develop a custom one.

8. For Instance type ¸ select a circumstances type (default: ml.p5e.48 xlarge).
9. For Initial circumstances count, get in the variety of instances (default: 1). Selecting appropriate circumstances types and counts is important for expense and performance optimization. Monitor your release to change these settings as needed.Under Inference type, Real-time reasoning is chosen by default. This is enhanced for sustained traffic and low latency.
10. Review all setups for precision. For this model, we strongly suggest adhering to SageMaker JumpStart default settings and making certain that network isolation remains in place.
11. Choose Deploy to release the model.
    
    The implementation process can take several minutes to complete.
    
    When implementation is complete, your endpoint status will alter to InService. At this point, the model is prepared to accept inference demands through the endpoint. You can monitor the release development on the SageMaker console Endpoints page, which will show pertinent metrics and status details. When the deployment is total, you can conjure up the model utilizing a SageMaker runtime client and integrate it with your applications.
    
    Deploy DeepSeek-R1 utilizing the SageMaker Python SDK
    
    To get going with DeepSeek-R1 using the SageMaker Python SDK, you will need to install the SageMaker Python SDK and make certain you have the necessary AWS permissions and environment setup. The following is a detailed code example that shows how to release and utilize DeepSeek-R1 for inference programmatically. The code for releasing the design is offered in the Github here. You can clone the notebook and run from SageMaker Studio.
    
    You can run extra demands against the predictor:
    
    Implement guardrails and run inference with your SageMaker JumpStart predictor
    
    Similar to Amazon Bedrock, you can likewise utilize the ApplyGuardrail API with your SageMaker JumpStart predictor. You can produce a guardrail utilizing the Amazon Bedrock console or the API, and execute it as displayed in the following code:
    
    Tidy up
    
    To prevent unwanted charges, finish the actions in this section to tidy up your resources.
    
    Delete the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace release
    
    If you deployed the design utilizing Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, total the following actions:
    
    1. On the Amazon Bedrock console, under Foundation designs in the navigation pane, pick Marketplace deployments.
12. In the Managed deployments area, find the endpoint you wish to delete.
13. Select the endpoint, and on the Actions menu, choose Delete.
14. Verify the endpoint details to make certain you're deleting the proper deployment: 1. Endpoint name.
15. Model name.
16. Endpoint status
    
    Delete the SageMaker JumpStart predictor
    
    The SageMaker JumpStart design you deployed will sustain expenses if you leave it running. Use the following code to erase the endpoint if you want to stop sustaining charges. For more details, see Delete Endpoints and Resources.
    
    Conclusion
    
    In this post, we checked out how you can access and release the DeepSeek-R1 model using Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. Visit SageMaker JumpStart in SageMaker Studio or Amazon Bedrock Marketplace now to start. For more details, refer to Use Amazon Bedrock tooling with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart designs, SageMaker JumpStart pretrained models, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models, Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, and Getting going with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.
    
    About the Authors
    
    Vivek Gangasani is a Lead Specialist Solutions Architect for Inference at AWS. He assists emerging generative AI business build ingenious options utilizing AWS services and accelerated calculate. Currently, he is concentrated on establishing techniques for fine-tuning and optimizing the inference performance of large language models. In his leisure time, Vivek takes pleasure in treking, seeing films, and trying different foods.
    
    Niithiyn Vijeaswaran is a Generative AI Specialist Solutions Architect with the Third-Party Model Science team at AWS. His area of focus is AWS AI accelerators (AWS Neuron). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer technology and Bioinformatics.
    
    Jonathan Evans is a Professional Solutions Architect dealing with generative AI with the Third-Party Model Science group at AWS.
    
    Banu Nagasundaram leads item, engineering, and tactical collaborations for Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker's artificial intelligence and generative AI center. She is passionate about constructing solutions that help clients accelerate their AI journey and unlock organization worth.