Mohammad Rafaquat Alam   •   20 days ago

Rule Clarification: Using external AI endpoints due to AWS Bedrock account throttling

My application complies with the mandatory hackathon stack: the frontend is deployed on Vercel, the backend runs on AWS EC2, and the data layer is powered by an eligible AWS Serverless Database.

However, I am currently blocked on the AI layer. My AWS account is throwing a ThrottlingException: Too many tokens per day on the very first request to Amazon Bedrock (Nova 2 Lite). While I have an open AWS support ticket, the response time might cause me to miss valuable development time before the June 29th deadline.

I want to route my LLM inference through an external AI provider (like OpenAI or Anthropic) so I don't lose development time. As long as my main infrastructure strictly uses Vercel and the required AWS Serverless Database, will utilizing a third-party API for AI features cause disqualification or point deductions?

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  Shawni Devpost Manager   •   16 days ago

  Hi there,

  The rules only require that your project use one of the designated AWS Databases (Aurora, Aurora DSQL, or DynamoDB) as the primary back end and deploy your front end on Vercel or v0.app. There's no restriction on which AI providers or APIs you integrate.

  Per the rules: "If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs and/or data, Entrant must be authorized to use them in accordance with any terms and conditions or licensing requirements of the tool." So OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other external AI provider is fair game — just make sure you're compliant with their terms.

  Good luck!

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