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Amazon S3 Vectors: Native vector storage in the cloud

Amazon S3 Vectors: Native vector storage in the cloud

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Amazon has taken an important step in the world of artificial intelligence with the launch of S3 Vectors, the first cloud storage service with native support for large-scale vectors. This innovation promises to reduce costs by up to 90% for uploading, storing, and querying vector data.

What are vectors and why do we care?

Vectors are numerical representations of unstructured data (text, images, audio, video) generated by embedding models. They are the foundation of generative AI applications that need to find similarities between data using distance metrics.