Deploy and fine-tune DeepSeek-R1 on AWS via Hugging Face Endpoints, Bedrock, and Jumpstart

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This guide shows multiple AWS deployment paths for the DeepSeek-R1 family using Hugging Face on AWS: Inference Endpoints, Bedrock, and Jumpstart/SageMaker. It details deploying the 70B Distill Llama variant on GPU (ml.g6.48xlarge) and Neuron/Inferentia hardware, including HFModel setup and image URIs, signaling broad hardware support and automation via the SageMaker Python SDK. The page quotes an endpoint cost of about $8.3/hour and emphasizes quota and domain prerequisites, so operators should plan capacity, permissions, and regional image availability to avoid deployment delays.