AWS First Steps
Region expansion

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

Amazon S3 Vectors provides purpose-built vector storage for AI agents and RAG, delivering S3's elasticity and durability

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. S3 Vectors is purpose-built vector storage for AI agents, inference, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and semantic search at billion-vector scale. It offers the same elasticity, durability, and availability as Amazon S3, with dedicated APIs for storing, accessing, and querying vectors without provisioning infrastructure.

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