AI has revolutionized how we build smarter and more efficient systems, with large language models (LLMs) at the forefront of this transformation. Thanks to their advanced natural language processing capabilities, these models excel at understanding context and generating meaningful responses. However, they have inherent limitations—they cannot access real-time knowledge or interact with external systems. Amazon Bedrock Agents provide the perfect solution to these challenges and empower LLMs to take intelligent actions. By enhancing LLMs with features like action execution and external system interaction, Bedrock Agents unlock the potential for building truly dynamic and intelligent applications.
In this Cloud Lab, you’ll explore the power of Amazon Bedrock Agents and their ability to significantly enhance the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by building and improving an application step by step. You’ll begin by creating essential resources like IAM roles and DynamoDB tables that’ll be used for access control and application storage. After that, you’ll develop an application integrated with an LLM provided by Bedrock to showcase the value of AI in applications. Next, you’ll replace this direct interaction with a Bedrock Agent, making the workflow more structured and efficient. Finally, you’ll introduce action groups by integrating a Lambda function, enabling the agent to perform a real-world task by interacting with an external system, a DynamoDB table. Through this progression, you’ll see how Bedrock Agents make AI-powered applications cleaner, more efficient, and more powerful.
By the end of this Cloud Lab, you’ll clearly understand how to integrate Bedrock’s LLMs into applications, streamline workflows with agents for improved efficiency, and expand your application’s capabilities using action groups. You’ll also gain hands-on experience structuring AI-driven workflows, enabling more intelligent and dynamic interactions within your applications.
Here’s a high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you’ll create in this lab:
