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Amazon S3 Vectors now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon S3 Vectors provides purpose-built vector storage for AI agents and RAG, now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. 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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