Tailoring foundation models for your business needs: A comprehensive guide to RAG, fine-tuning, and hybrid approaches
Foundation models (FMs) have revolutionised AI capabilities, but adopting them for specific business needs can be challenging. Organizations often struggle with balancing model performance, cost-efficiency, and the need for domain-specific knowledge. This blog post explores three powerful techniques for tailoring FMs to your unique requirements: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and a hybrid approach combining […]
How Rufus doubled their inference speed and handled Prime Day traffic with AWS AI chips and parallel decoding
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by high inference latency, limited throughput, and high costs associated with text generation. These inefficiencies are particularly pronounced during high-demand events like Amazon Prime Day, where systems like Rufus—the Amazon AI-powered shopping assistant—must handle massive scale […]
New Amazon Bedrock Data Automation capabilities streamline video and audio analysis
Organizations across a wide range of industries are struggling to process massive amounts of unstructured video and audio content to support their core business applications and organizational priorities. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation helps them meet this challenge by streamlining application development and automating workflows that use content from documents, images, audio, and video. Recently, we […]
GuardianGamer scales family-safe cloud gaming with AWS
This blog post is co-written with Heidi Vogel Brockmann and Ronald Brockmann from GuardianGamer. Millions of families face a common challenge: how to keep children safe in online gaming without sacrificing the joy and social connection these games provide. In this post, we share how GuardianGamer—a member of the AWS Activate startup community—has built a […]
Principal Financial Group increases Voice Virtual Assistant performance using Genesys, Amazon Lex, and Amazon QuickSight
This post was cowritten by Mulay Ahmed, Assistant Director of Engineering, and Ruby Donald, Assistant Director of Engineering at Principal Financial Group. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. Principal Financial Group® is an integrated global […]
Optimize query responses with user feedback using Amazon Bedrock embedding and few-shot prompting
Improving response quality for user queries is essential for AI-driven applications, especially those focusing on user satisfaction. For example, an HR chat-based assistant should strictly follow company policies and respond using a certain tone. A deviation from that can be corrected by feedback from users. This post demonstrates how Amazon Bedrock, combined with a user […]
Boosting team productivity with Amazon Q Business Microsoft 365 integrations for Microsoft 365 Outlook and Word
Amazon Q Business, with its enterprise grade security, seamless integration with multiple diverse data sources, and sophisticated natural language understanding, represents the next generation of AI business assistants. What sets Amazon Q Business apart is its support of enterprise requirements from its ability to integrate with company documentation to its adaptability with specific business terminology […]
Integrate Amazon Bedrock Agents with Slack
As companies increasingly adopt generative AI applications, AI agents capable of delivering tangible business value have emerged as a crucial component. In this context, integrating custom-built AI agents within chat services such as Slack can be transformative, providing businesses with seamless access to AI assistants powered by sophisticated foundation models (FMs). After an AI agent […]
Secure distributed logging in scalable multi-account deployments using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain
Data privacy is a critical issue for software companies that provide services in the data management space. If they want customers to trust them with their data, software companies need to show and prove that their customers’ data will remain confidential and within controlled environments. Some companies go to great lengths to maintain confidentiality, sometimes […]
Build a domain‐aware data preprocessing pipeline: A multi‐agent collaboration approach
Enterprises—especially in the insurance industry—face increasing challenges in processing vast amounts of unstructured data from diverse formats, including PDFs, spreadsheets, images, videos, and audio files. These might include claims document packages, crash event videos, chat transcripts, or policy documents. All contain critical information across the claims processing lifecycle. Traditional data preprocessing methods, though functional, might […]