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how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-18 00:55Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A cityscape at dusk with a large server room in the center, workers and robots moving around, as a massive storm cloud gathers in the background, with flashes of lightning illuminating the darkening sky, and a sense of urgency in the air.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A cityscape at dusk with a large server room in the center, workers and robots moving around, as a massive storm cloud gathers in the background, with flashes of lightning illuminating the darkening sky, and a sense of urgency in the air. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
b31c6a60e042c05dcee5ac5a18371733e9f84f383b23103ca689c7b6b284684e
Amazon Bedrock uses zero operator access and zero retention for inference
AWS keeps all European Bedrock traffic in one German region and adds an agent runtime version field.
By Marcus Feld · 3wAmazon Web Services says Bedrock uses a zero operator access data security model and a zero data retention model for inference, meaning no service operators can access model input or output, and prompts and responses are not stored by default.
All Bedrock inference requests, including those for Gemma 4, remain in the eusc-de-east-1 AWS Region in Brandenburg, Germany, within the AWS European Sovereign Cloud; global cross-Region inference is not available there.
For developers building agents, AWS SDK v3.1133.0 added a platformVersion field to the CreateAgentRuntime, UpdateAgentRuntime, and GetAgentRuntime operations of Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, allowing specification of the agent runtime platform version.
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