AWS Generative AI: The Complete Guide

The AWS generative AI stack, end to end, for engineers and architects: Amazon Bedrock for managed models, Amazon SageMaker AI to build your own, and Trainium and Inferentia underneath, plus the retrieval, agent, safety, cost and governance layers that turn a model into a product. A 30-part series that reads from first principles to production. Where it meets vendor-neutral ground it links to the Generative AI guide and the NVIDIA AI guide rather than repeating them.

Series complete · 30 of 30 published
Phase 1 · Platform foundations
  1. 01What the AWS GenAI Stack Is, End to End
  2. 02Amazon Bedrock and the Shared Responsibility Model
  3. 03The Bedrock Model Catalog and Choosing a Model
  4. 04The Amazon Nova Family
  5. 05Bedrock vs SageMaker AI
  6. 06Bedrock Pricing: On-Demand, Provisioned and Batch
  7. 07Trainium and Inferentia vs GPU
  8. 08Regions, Quotas and Cross-Region Inference
  9. 09PrivateLink and VPC Endpoints for Bedrock
  10. 10Data Residency, KMS and Security
Phase 2 · Calling models, RAG and agents
  1. 11InvokeModel vs the Converse API
  2. 12Bedrock Knowledge Bases for RAG
  3. 13Bedrock Agents
  4. 14Bedrock Guardrails
  5. 15Prompt Management, Flows and Caching
  6. 16Fine-Tuning and Continued Pre-Training on Bedrock
  7. 17Model Distillation on Bedrock
Phase 3 · Training, data and scale
  1. 18SageMaker JumpStart
  2. 19SageMaker HyperPod
  3. 20Data Prep and Grounding Data
  4. 21Multi-Agent Collaboration on Bedrock
Phase 4 · Operations, cost and governance
  1. 22Amazon Q Business and Q Developer
  2. 23Model Evaluation on Bedrock
  3. 24Bedrock Data Automation and Multimodal
  4. 25Observability with CloudWatch and Invocation Logging
  5. 26Cost Governance and FinOps on AWS
  6. 27Responsible AI and Watermarking
  7. 28LLMOps and CI/CD for Bedrock and SageMaker
Phase 5 · Architecture and verdict
  1. 29Reference Architectures: Chatbot, RAG, Agentic, Batch
  2. 30AWS GenAI vs the Field, the Verdict

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About the Author

Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.