Course Overview
TOPThis course is designed to introduce generative artificial intelligence (AI) to software developers interested in using large language models (LLMs) 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.
Scheduled Classes
TOPWhat You'll Learn
TOPDescribe generative AI and how it aligns to machine learning
- 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 foundation models (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
- Define the importance of generative AI and explain its potential risks and benefits
- Identify the components of a generative AI application and how to customize an 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 LLMs, prompt templates, chains, chat models, text embeddings models, document loaders, retrievers, and Agents for Amazon Bedrock
- Describe architecture patterns that you can implement with Amazon Bedrock for building generative AI applications
- Apply the concepts to build and test sample use cases that use the various Amazon Bedrock models, LangChain, and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach
- 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
- In this course, you will learn to do the following:
Outline
TOPImplementing Amazon Bedrock Flows
- Designing Amazon Bedrock Agents
- Developing Amazon Bedrock Inline Agents
- Designing multi-agent collaboration
- Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- Hands-on lab: Developing Amazon Bedrock Agents Integrated with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and Guardrails
- Understanding generative AI concepts
- Identifying AWS generative AI stack components
- Designing generative AI application components
- Guiding model response generation
- Using Amazon Bedrock programmatically
- Hands-on lab: Develop with Amazon Bedrock APIs
- Hands-on lab: Develop Streaming Patterns with Amazon Bedrock APIs
- Introducing prompt engineering
- Introducing prompt techniques
- Optimizing prompts for better results
- Implementing architecture patterns with Amazon Bedrock APIs
- Exploring common use cases
- Adding conversational memory to extend context
- Hands-on lab: Develop Conversation Patterns with Amazon Bedrock APIs
- Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Hands-on lab: Develop Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Applications with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Invoking a foundation model in Amazon Bedrock using LangChain
- Using LangChain for context-aware responses
- Hands-on lab: Develop a Generative AI Application Pattern using Open Source Frameworks and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Evaluating application components
- Evaluating model output
- Evaluating RAG output
- Optimizing latency and cost
- Hands-on lab: Evaluating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Applications
- Understanding responsible AI
- Mitigating bias and addressing prompt misuses
- Using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
- Hands-on lab: Securing Generative AI Applications Using Bedrock Guardrails
- Using tools
- Understanding AI agents
- Understanding open source agentic frameworks
- Understanding agent interoperability
Prerequisites
TOPCompleted _AWS Technical Essentials
- Intermediate-level proficiency in Python
- Recommended previous knowledge
Who Should Attend
TOPSoftware developers interested in using LLMs without fine
- tuning
- This course is intended for software developers.