T8-R3 in five minutes

A cloud model API lets you send messages without hosting the weights.

AWS, Azure, and Google document such APIs. Confirm the current one before you code.

The key stays off the page.

The region is a choice that affects where logs go. Confirm the region's meaning in that provider's docs.

The notebook and the eval stay the same if you swap a mock for an endpoint.

Lab 01 already branches: local runner or mock. A cloud call would be a third branch with a key in the environment. This room does not add the key.

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Amazon Bedrock overview vendor last checked 2026-10
Azure OpenAI documentation path vendor confirm On 2026-10 this URL opened a Microsoft Foundry models page, not a page titled Azure OpenAI. last checked 2026-10
Vertex AI documentation path vendor confirm On 2026-10 this URL opened Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform docs, not a page titled Vertex AI. last checked 2026-10
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