Today, we are delighted to reveal 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, in addition to the distilled variations ranging from 1.5 to 70 billion parameters to build, experiment, and properly scale your generative AI ideas on AWS.

In this post, we show how to start with DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can follow comparable steps to release the distilled versions of the designs as well.

Overview of DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 is a large language design (LLM) established by DeepSeek AI that uses reinforcement discovering to improve thinking capabilities through a multi-stage training process from a DeepSeek-V3-Base foundation. A crucial differentiating function is its support learning (RL) action, which was used to improve the model’s reactions beyond the basic pre-training and fine-tuning process. By incorporating RL, DeepSeek-R1 can adjust better to user feedback and objectives, eventually enhancing both importance and clearness. In addition, DeepSeek-R1 utilizes a chain-of-thought (CoT) approach, indicating it’s geared up to break down intricate queries and factor through them in a detailed way. This assisted thinking process allows the model to produce more precise, transparent, and detailed responses. This design integrates RL-based fine-tuning with CoT abilities, aiming to produce structured reactions while concentrating on interpretability and user interaction. With its extensive capabilities DeepSeek-R1 has captured the industry’s attention as a versatile text-generation design that can be incorporated into various workflows such as agents, logical reasoning and data interpretation tasks.

DeepSeek-R1 uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture and is 671 billion parameters in size. The MoE architecture allows activation of 37 billion parameters, enabling efficient inference by routing queries to the most relevant expert “clusters.” This technique enables the model to concentrate on various issue domains while maintaining overall effectiveness. DeepSeek-R1 needs a minimum of 800 GB of HBM memory in FP8 format for inference. In this post, we will utilize an ml.p5e.48 xlarge circumstances to deploy the model. ml.p5e.48 xlarge includes 8 Nvidia H200 GPUs offering 1128 GB of GPU memory.

DeepSeek-R1 distilled models bring the reasoning capabilities of the main R1 model to more effective architectures based upon popular open designs like Qwen (1.5 B, 7B, 14B, and 32B) and Llama (8B and 70B). Distillation refers to a process of training smaller sized, more effective designs to imitate the habits and thinking patterns of the bigger DeepSeek-R1 model, utilizing it as an instructor model.

You can deploy 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 place. In this blog, we will use Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to introduce safeguards, avoid damaging material, and assess designs against essential safety criteria. At the time of writing this blog, for DeepSeek-R1 deployments on SageMaker JumpStart and Bedrock Marketplace, Bedrock Guardrails supports only the ApplyGuardrail API. You can create numerous guardrails tailored to various use cases and apply them to the DeepSeek-R1 design, improving user experiences and standardizing security controls across your generative AI applications.

Prerequisites

To deploy the DeepSeek-R1 model, you need access to an ml.p5e circumstances. To check if you have quotas for P5e, open the Service Quotas console and under AWS Services, select Amazon SageMaker, and confirm you’re utilizing ml.p5e.48 xlarge for endpoint usage. Make certain that you have at least one ml.P5e.48 xlarge instance in the AWS Region you are deploying. To request a limitation boost, create a limitation increase request and reach out to your account group.

Because you will be releasing this design with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, make certain you have the right AWS Identity and Gain Access To Management (IAM) approvals to utilize Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. For instructions, see Establish consents to use guardrails for material filtering.

Implementing guardrails with the ApplyGuardrail API

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enables you to present safeguards, avoid harmful material, and evaluate models against crucial security requirements. You can execute precaution for the DeepSeek-R1 model utilizing the Amazon Bedrock ApplyGuardrail API. This enables you to use guardrails to evaluate user inputs and model reactions released on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. You can create a guardrail utilizing the Amazon Bedrock console or the API. For the example code to develop the guardrail, see the GitHub repo.

The basic flow includes the following steps: First, the system receives an input for the model. This input is then processed through the ApplyGuardrail API. If the input passes the guardrail check, it’s sent out to the design for inference. After receiving the design’s output, another guardrail check is applied. If the output passes this final check, it’s returned as the result. However, if either the input or output is stepped in by the guardrail, a message is returned suggesting the nature of the intervention and whether it happened at the input or output stage. The examples showcased in the following areas demonstrate reasoning utilizing 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, total the following actions:

1. On the Amazon Bedrock console, pick Model brochure under Foundation designs in the navigation pane. At the time of composing this post, you can utilize the InvokeModel API to conjure up the design. It does not support Converse APIs and other Amazon Bedrock tooling. 2. Filter for DeepSeek as a company and select the DeepSeek-R1 model.

The design detail page offers vital details about the model’s abilities, prices structure, and implementation guidelines. You can find detailed usage guidelines, consisting of sample API calls and code bits for integration. The model supports different text generation tasks, including content creation, code generation, and concern answering, using its reinforcement finding out optimization and CoT reasoning abilities. The page likewise consists of implementation choices and licensing details to assist you start with DeepSeek-R1 in your applications. 3. To begin using DeepSeek-R1, pick Deploy.

You will be triggered to set up the release details for DeepSeek-R1. The model ID will be pre-populated. 4. For Endpoint name, get in an endpoint name (between 1-50 alphanumeric characters). 5. For Number of instances, enter a variety of instances (in between 1-100). 6. For example type, select your circumstances type. For optimum efficiency with DeepSeek-R1, a GPU-based instance type like ml.p5e.48 xlarge is advised. Optionally, you can set up sophisticated security and facilities settings, including virtual personal cloud (VPC) networking, service function approvals, higgledy-piggledy.xyz and encryption settings. For a lot of use cases, the default settings will work well. However, for production deployments, you may want to review these settings to align with your company’s security and compliance requirements. 7. Choose Deploy to begin utilizing the model.

When the deployment is total, you can check DeepSeek-R1’s abilities straight in the Amazon Bedrock playground. 8. Choose Open in play area to access an interactive interface where you can explore various triggers and change model specifications like temperature and optimum length. When utilizing R1 with Bedrock’s InvokeModel and Playground Console, utilize DeepSeek’s chat template for optimal outcomes. For example, content for reasoning.

This is an excellent method to explore the design’s reasoning and text generation abilities before integrating it into your applications. The play ground offers immediate feedback, assisting you comprehend how the design reacts to different inputs and letting you fine-tune your prompts for optimal results.

You can rapidly test the design in the play area through the UI. However, to conjure up 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 shows how to carry out reasoning utilizing a released DeepSeek-R1 model through Amazon Bedrock using the invoke_model and ApplyGuardrail API. You can produce 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 created the guardrail, use the following code to execute guardrails. The script initializes the bedrock_runtime customer, configures inference criteria, and sends out a demand to generate text based on a user prompt.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 with SageMaker JumpStart

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

Deploying DeepSeek-R1 model through SageMaker JumpStart uses 2 hassle-free techniques: utilizing the intuitive SageMaker JumpStart UI or executing programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK. Let’s explore both techniques to assist you choose the method that finest matches your requirements.

Deploy DeepSeek-R1 through SageMaker JumpStart UI

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

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

The design browser shows available models, with details like the supplier name and model capabilities.

4. Look for DeepSeek-R1 to see the DeepSeek-R1 model card. Each model card shows key details, including:

- Model name

• Provider name
• Task category (for instance, Text Generation). Bedrock Ready badge (if applicable), indicating that this model can be signed up with Amazon Bedrock, enabling you to use Amazon Bedrock APIs to conjure up the model
  
  5. Choose the model card to see the model details page.
  
  The model details page includes the following details:
  
  - The design name and supplier details. Deploy button to release the design. About and Notebooks tabs with detailed details
  
  The About tab consists of important details, such as:
  
  - Model description.
• License details.
• Technical requirements. - Usage standards
  
  Before you release the design, it’s recommended to review the design details and license terms to validate compatibility with your usage case.
  
  6. Choose Deploy to proceed with deployment.
  
  7. For Endpoint name, utilize the instantly produced name or produce a customized one.

8. For Instance type ¸ choose an instance type (default: ml.p5e.48 xlarge).
9. For Initial instance count, get in the number of circumstances (default: 1). Selecting suitable instance types and counts is important for cost and efficiency optimization. Monitor your release to adjust these settings as needed.Under Inference type, Real-time inference is chosen by default. This is enhanced for sustained traffic and low latency.
10. Review all configurations for accuracy. For this design, we strongly advise sticking to SageMaker JumpStart default settings and making certain that network seclusion remains in place.
11. Choose Deploy to deploy the model.
    
    The deployment process can take numerous minutes to finish.
    
    When deployment is total, your endpoint status will alter to InService. At this point, the model is ready to accept reasoning demands through the endpoint. You can keep an eye on the implementation development on the SageMaker console Endpoints page, which will display pertinent metrics and status details. When the deployment is complete, you can invoke the design using a client and incorporate it with your applications.
    
    Deploy DeepSeek-R1 utilizing the SageMaker Python SDK
    
    To begin with DeepSeek-R1 utilizing the SageMaker Python SDK, you will require to install the SageMaker Python SDK and make certain you have the essential AWS authorizations and environment setup. The following is a detailed code example that demonstrates how to release and utilize DeepSeek-R1 for inference programmatically. The code for releasing the model is supplied in the Github here. You can clone the notebook and range from SageMaker Studio.
    
    You can run additional requests against the predictor:
    
    Implement guardrails and run reasoning with your SageMaker JumpStart predictor
    
    Similar to Amazon Bedrock, you can also use the ApplyGuardrail API with your SageMaker JumpStart predictor. You can produce a guardrail using the Amazon Bedrock console or the API, and execute it as shown in the following code:
    
    Clean up
    
    To avoid unwanted charges, finish the steps in this area to clean up your resources.
    
    Delete the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace release
    
    If you deployed the model using Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, complete the following actions:
    
    1. On the Amazon Bedrock console, under Foundation models in the navigation pane, pick Marketplace deployments.
12. In the Managed implementations section, locate the endpoint you want to erase.
13. Select the endpoint, and on the Actions menu, select Delete.
14. Verify the endpoint details to make certain you’re erasing the proper release: 1. Endpoint name.
15. Model name.
16. Endpoint status
    
    Delete the SageMaker JumpStart predictor
    
    The SageMaker JumpStart design you released will sustain expenses if you leave it running. Use the following code to erase the endpoint if you wish to stop sustaining charges. For more details, see Delete Endpoints and Resources.
    
    Conclusion
    
    In this post, we explored how you can access and deploy the DeepSeek-R1 model using Bedrock Marketplace and SageMaker JumpStart. Visit SageMaker JumpStart in SageMaker Studio or Amazon Bedrock Marketplace now to begin. For more details, describe Use Amazon Bedrock tooling with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart designs, SageMaker JumpStart pretrained models, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models, Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, and Starting with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.
    
    About the Authors
    
    Vivek Gangasani is a Lead Specialist Solutions Architect for Inference at AWS. He helps emerging generative AI business build innovative services using AWS services and accelerated compute. Currently, he is focused on developing techniques for fine-tuning and optimizing the inference performance of large language designs. In his leisure time, Vivek enjoys treking, watching motion pictures, and trying different foods.
    
    Niithiyn Vijeaswaran is a Generative AI Specialist Solutions Architect with the Third-Party Model Science group at AWS. His location of focus is AWS AI accelerators (AWS Neuron). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Bioinformatics.
    
    Jonathan Evans is a Specialist Solutions Architect working on generative AI with the Third-Party Model Science team at AWS.
    
    Banu Nagasundaram leads item, engineering, and strategic partnerships for Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker’s artificial intelligence and generative AI hub. She is passionate about developing options that help customers accelerate their AI journey and unlock business value.