Overview
This is a self-hosted deployment of the Qwen 3 0.6B large language model. It runs as a single GPU-powered EC2 instance allowing you to keep your data private and leverage unlimited tokens. Access to the model is via HTTPS, ensuring data is encrypted in-transit at all times. Once the instance is powered on, the server requires 10 minutes to load the LLM before it is ready to serve requests. Highlights of the Qwen 3 model include:
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Causal language model with 0.6 billion parameters (0.44 billion non-embedding), 28 layers, and grouped-query attention with 16 query heads and 8 key-value heads.
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Native context length of 32,768 tokens.
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Switches between thinking mode for reasoning, math, and coding, and non-thinking mode for general dialogue. Thinking can also be toggled per turn with /think and /no_think.
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Tool calling and agent workflows in both thinking and non-thinking modes.
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Support for 100+ languages and dialects, including multilingual instruction following and translation.
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Fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing for unrestricted commercial use.
Highlights
- Data security, privacy, and confidentiality
- Predictable cost
- Unlimited usage of a dedicated model
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Configured for production environments, please allow 10 minutes once the instance is powered on for the Ollama service to fully load the LLM. Ollama is exposed on port 11434.
Test via HTTP with: curl -X POST http://<PUBLIC_IP>:11434/api/generate -d '{"model":"qwen3:0.6b","prompt":"In one sentence, explain what a large language model is capable of."}'
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Usage instructions
- Deploy the EC2 instance, configure the Security Group to only allow inbound port 22 and 11434 from your trusted IP address(es)
- After the instance is powered on, allow 10 minutes for the server to load the LLM before sending requests.
- Access the Qwen 3 0.6B model via the Ollama service exposed on port 11434 for HTTP.
Test via HTTP with: curl -X POST http://<PUBLIC_IP>:11434/api/generate -d '{"model":"qwen3:0.6b","prompt":"In one sentence, explain what a large language model is capable of."}'
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The Salient Engineering support team can be reached at: support@salientengineering.com
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