Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data connectors (in preview)

Using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, foundation models (FMs) and agents can retrieve contextual information from your company’s private data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG helps FMs deliver more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. Over the past months, we’ve continuously added choices of embedding models, vector stores, and FMs to Knowledge Bases. Today, I’m excited to share that in addition to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you can now connect your web domains, Confluence, Salesforce, and SharePoint as data sources to your RAG applications (in preview). New data source connectors for web domains, Confluence, Salesforce, and SharePoint By including your web domains, you can give your RAG applications access to your public data, such as your company’s…

AWS Weekly Roundup – LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune, force AWS CloudFormation stack deletion, and more (May 27, 2024)

Last week, Dr. Matt Wood, VP for AI Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered the keynote at the AWS Summit Los Angeles. Matt and guest speakers shared the latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), developer tooling, and foundational infrastructure, showcasing how they come together to change what’s possible for builders. You can watch the full keynote on YouTube. Announcements during the LA Summit included two new Amazon Q courses as part of Amazon’s AI Ready initiative to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people globally by 2025. The courses are part of the Amazon Q learning plan. But that’s not all that happened last week. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention:…

Build RAG and agent-based generative AI applications with new Amazon Titan Text Premier model, available in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we’re happy to welcome a new member of the Amazon Titan family of models: Amazon Titan Text Premier, now available in Amazon Bedrock. Following Amazon Titan Text Lite and Titan Text Express, Titan Text Premier is the latest large language model (LLM) in the Amazon Titan family of models, further increasing your model choice within Amazon Bedrock. You can now choose between the following Titan Text models in Bedrock: Titan Text Premier is the most advanced Titan LLM for text-based enterprise applications. With a maximum context length of 32K tokens, it has been specifically optimized for enterprise use cases, such as building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent-based applications with Knowledge Bases and Agents for Amazon Bedrock. As with…

Build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Studio (preview)

Today, we’re introducing Amazon Bedrock Studio, a new web-based generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) development experience, in public preview. Amazon Bedrock Studio accelerates the development of generative AI applications by providing a rapid prototyping environment with key Amazon Bedrock features, including Knowledge Bases, Agents, and Guardrails. As a developer, you can now use your company’s single sign-on credentials to sign in to Bedrock Studio and start experimenting. You can build applications using a wide array of top performing models, evaluate, and share your generative AI apps within Bedrock Studio. The user interface guides you through various steps to help improve a model’s responses. You can experiment with model settings, and securely integrate your company data sources, tools, and APIs, and set guardrails. You can…