Overview

Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS

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

Skills Covered

In this course, you will learn to:

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