Generative AI on AWS Training Overview
This Generative AI on AWS training course introduces generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) to software developers interested in using large language models (LLMs) without fine-tuning. Attendees learn Gen AI fundamentals, project planning best practices, and the functionalities of Amazon Bedrock. Additionally, the course covers prompt engineering, giving participants the skills to craft effective instructions for LLMs. By the end of this training, students will have mastered building generative AI applications on AWS using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
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 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
- 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
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Completed AWS Technical Essentials
- Intermediate-level proficiency in Python
Outline
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Introduction to Generative AI – Art of the Possible
- Overview of ML
- Basics of generative AI
- Generative AI use cases
- Generative AI in practice
- Risks and benefits
Planning a Generative AI Project
- Generative AI fundamentals
- Generative AI in practice
- Generative AI context
- Steps in planning a generative AI project
- Risks and mitigation
Getting Started with Amazon Bedrock
- Introduction to Amazon Bedrock
- Architecture and use cases
- How to use Amazon Bedrock
Foundations of Prompt Engineering
- Basics of foundation models
- Fundamentals of prompt engineering
- Basic prompt techniques
- Advanced prompt techniques
- Model-specific prompt techniques
- Demonstration: Fine-tuning a basic text prompt
- Addressing prompt misuses
- Mitigating bias
- Demonstration: Image bias mitigation
Amazon Bedrock Application Components
- Overview of generative AI application components
- Foundation models and the FM interface
- Working with datasets and embeddings
- Demonstration: Word embeddings
- Additional application components
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Model fine-tuning
- Securing generative AI applications
- Generative AI application architecture
Amazon Bedrock Foundation Models
- Introduction to Amazon Bedrock foundation models
- Using Amazon Bedrock FMs for inference
- Amazon Bedrock methods
- Data protection and auditability
LangChain
- Optimizing LLM performance
- Using models with LangChain
- Constructing prompts
- Structuring documents with indexes
- Storing and retrieving data with memory
- Using chains to sequence components
- Managing external resources with LangChain agents
Architecture Patterns
- Introduction to architecture patterns
- Text summarization
- Question answering
- Chatbot
- Code generation
- LangChain and agents for Amazon Bedrock
Training Materials
A modern web browser and an Internet connection free of restrictive firewalls, so that the student can connect by SSH or Remote Desktop (RDP) into AWS virtual machines.
Software Requirements
All Gen AI on AWS training students will receive comprehensive courseware.
