Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS

Course Description:

This course is designed to introduce generative AI to software developers interested in leveraging large language models without fine-tuning. It covers an overview of generative AI, planning a generative AI project, getting started with Amazon Bedrock, foundations of prompt engineering, and architecture patterns to build generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain.

Activities:

This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and group exercises.

Course Objectives:

• Describe generative AI and how it aligns to machine learning
• Define the importance of generative AI and explain its potential risks and benefits
• Identify business value from generative AI use cases
• Discuss the technical foundations and key terminology for generative AI
• Explain the steps for planning a generative AI project
• Identify some of the risks and mitigations when using generative AI
• Understand how Amazon Bedrock works
• Familiarize yourself with basic concepts of Amazon Bedrock
• Recognize the benefits of Amazon Bedrock
• List typical use cases for Amazon Bedrock
• Describe the typical architecture associated with an Amazon Bedrock solution
• Understand the cost structure of Amazon Bedrock
• Implement a demonstration of Amazon Bedrock in the AWS Management Console
• Define prompt engineering and apply general best practices when interacting with FMs
• Identify the basic types of prompt techniques, including zero-shot and few-shot learning
• Apply advanced prompt techniques when necessary for your use case
• Identify which prompt-techniques are best-suited for specific models
• Identify potential prompt misuses
• Analyze potential bias in FM responses and design prompts that mitigate that bias
• Identify the components of a generative AI application and how to customize a foundation model (FM)
• Describe Amazon Bedrock foundation models, inference parameters, and key Amazon Bedrock APIs
• Identify Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings that help with monitoring, securing, and governing your Amazon Bedrock applications
• Describe how to integrate LangChain with large language models (LLMs), prompt templates, chains, chat models, text embeddings models, document loaders, retrievers, and Agents for
  Amazon Bedrock
• Describe architecture patterns that can be implemented with Amazon Bedrock for building generative AI applications
• Apply the concepts to build and test sample use cases that leverage the various Amazon Bedrock models, LangChain, and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach

Intended Audience:

• Software developers interested in leveraging large language models without fine-tuning

Prerequisites:

• Completion of AWS Technical Essentials
• Intermediate-level proficiency in Python