‘Vector Databases are Dead Before RAG’

Time is ticking for vector database companies.  Cloud giant AWS has launched the preview of Amazon S3 Vectors, a new vector storage solution that allows businesses to store and query AI-ready data at scale, with cost savings of up to 90% compared to traditional methods. The service introduces a new type of bucket called vector buckets within Amazon S3, which comes with dedicated APIs to store, access, and query vector data without the need to provision any infrastructure. Each bucket can hold up to 10,000 vector indexes, and each index can store tens of millions of vectors. “Amazon S3 Vectors is the first cloud object store with native support for large vector datasets combined with subsecond query performance,” AWS said in its blog post. “This makes it cost-effective f