Generative AI Essentials on AWS

Generative AI Essentials on AWS is a comprehensive one-day, instructor-led training course designed for professionals with limited prior knowledge of generative AI.

This course is intended for:

- Business Analysts 

- IT Support Professionals 

- Marketing Professionals 

- Product or Project Managers 

- Line-of-Business or IT Managers 

- Sales Professionals 

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Explain responsible AI foundations
• Describe multimodal AI capabilities
• Implement generative AI solutions using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova 2
• Explain how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances AI responses by connecting agents to organizational knowledge sources
• Describe Amazon Bedrock AgentCore capabilities
• Apply responsible AI practices using Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
• Explain security and governance considerations
• Describe key components of generative AI project planning

Module 0: Course Introduction 

• Course structure/schedule 
• Five-phase learning journey 
• Responsible AI foundational theme 

Module 1: Responsible AI Foundations 

• AI evolution: from traditional to generative
• Eight dimensions of responsible AI 
• AWS commitment to responsible AI 

Module 2: Introducing Generative AI 

• Generative AI Foundation
• Foundation models and embeddings deep dive 
• Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova 2 models 
• Comparing models

Module 3: Multi-Modal AI and use cases

• Multimodal AI capabilities
• Industry applications and use cases
• Use case evaluation framework 

Module 4: Essentials of prompt engineering 

• Prompt engineering fundamentals
• Prompting strategies 
• Prompt security and attach vectors
• Lab 1 - Optimizing Slogan Generation with Amazon Bedrock

Module 5: Implementing responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails 

• Amazon Bedrock guardrails overview and configuration
• Lab 2 - Implementing Responsible AI Principles with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Module 6: Introduction to Amazon Agents 

• Agentic AI concepts
• Amazon Bedrock capabilities
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore overview 
• RAG and Knowledge Bases

Module 7: Introduction to Security, Governance, and Compliance 

• From security principles to organizational accountability
• Governance frameworks 
• Compliance requirements 

Module 8: Implementing generative AI projects

• Project planning fundamentals 
• Lab 3: Building an HR Assistant with Amazon Bedrock

Module 9: Summary 

• Learning journey recap 
• Next steps

• None - No prior AI or generative AI knowledge required

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Activities:

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, and group exercises.