Category: Technical How-to

Integrating NeMo Guardrails with Large Language Models (LLMs) is a powerful step forward in deploying AI in customer-facing applications. The example of AnyCompany Pet Supplies illustrates how these technologies can enhance customer interactions while handling refusal and guiding the conversation toward the implemented outcomes. This journey towards ethical AI deployment is crucial for building sustainable, trust-based relationships with customers and shaping a future where technology aligns seamlessly with human values.

There is consistent customer feedback that AI assistants are the most useful when users can interface with them within the productivity tools they already use on a daily basis, to avoid switching applications and context. Web applications like Amazon Q Business and Slack have become essential environments for modern AI assistant deployment. This post explores how diverse interfaces enhance user interaction, improve accessibility, and cater to varying preferences.

The post showcases how generative AI can be used to logic, reason, and orchestrate integrations using a fictitious business process. It demonstrates strategies and techniques for orchestrating Amazon Bedrock agents and action groups to seamlessly integrate generative AI with existing business systems, enabling efficient data access and unlocking the full potential of generative AI.

In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Q Apps can help maximize the value of existing knowledge resources and improve productivity among various teams, ranging from finance to DevOps to support engineers. We share specific examples of how the generative AI assistant can enable surface relevant information, distill complex topics, generate custom content, and execute workflows—all while maintaining robust security and data governance controls.

By leveraging the generative AI capabilities and tooling of Amazon Bedrock, you can create an intelligent nerve center that connects diverse data sources, converts data into actionable insights, and creates a comprehensive plan to mitigate supply chain risks. This post walks through how Amazon Bedrock Flows connects your business systems, monitors medical device shortages, and provides mitigation strategies based on knowledge from Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or data stored in Amazon S3 directly. You’ll learn how to create a system that stays ahead of supply chain risks.

DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced large language model that combines reinforcement learning, chain-of-thought reasoning, and a Mixture of Experts architecture to deliver efficient, interpretable responses while maintaining safety through Amazon Bedrock Guardrails integration.

In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy distilled versions of DeepSeek-R1 models using Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. We focus on importing the variants currently supported DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B, which offer an optimal balance between performance and resource efficiency.

RAG retrieves data from a preexisting knowledge base (your data), combines it with the LLM’s knowledge, and generates responses with more human-like language. However, in order for generative AI to understand your data, some amount of data preparation is required, which involves a big learning curve. In this post, we walk you through how to convert your existing Aurora data into an index without needing data preparation for Amazon Kendra to perform data search and implement RAG that combines your data along with LLM knowledge to produce accurate responses.

This post walks you through the end-to-end process of deploying a single custom model on SageMaker using NASA’s Prithvi model. The Prithvi model is a first-of-its-kind temporal Vision transformer pre-trained by the IBM and NASA team on contiguous US Harmonised Landsat Sentinel 2 (HLS) data. It can be finetuned for image segmentation using the mmsegmentation library for use cases like burn scars detection, flood mapping, and multi-temporal crop classification.

In this post, we implemented secure fine-tuning jobs in Amazon Bedrock, which is crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining the integrity of your AI models. By following the best practices outlined in this post, including proper IAM role configuration, encryption at rest and in transit, and network isolation, you can significantly enhance the security posture of your fine-tuning processes.