Building Serverless Apps with AI Services on AWS

Course details

Looking to pair the flexibility and efficiency of serverless architecture with the power of generative AI? In this course, instructor Marcia Villalba shows you how to build serverless applications using AI services on AWS. The course focuses on integrating various services such as Amazon AI Service, Amazon Bedrock, AWS SAM, AWS Step Functions, and EventBridge. Along the way, practice your new skills in real time with hands-on demos and projects, building an application that can transcribe a video, translate its subtitles to another language, and then generate a title and a video description using generative AI.

Note: This course is designed for AWS developers and architects. Prior experience with AWS is required.

Concepts

Introduction

Serverless apps with AI services on AWS
What you should know
What you are going to build in this course

Introduction to AI

Introduction to AI
Introduction to Amazon AI Services
Introduction to Gen AI
Introduction to Amazon Bedrock
Challenges when building AI and Gen AI applications

Getting started with Serverless

What is serverless
Why serverless is great to build AI apps
Using Amazon Bedrock from serverless services

Infrastructure as code

The important role of infrastructure as code
Introducing AWS SAM
Installing and configuring AWS SAM
Getting started with the project

Introduction to Step Functions

Understanding Step Functions
Creating your first workflow in the AWS console
Creating a workflow as IaC
Introduction to ASL
Introduction to flow states
Step Functions integrations
Modifying the workflow with simple integration
Challenge - Modify the state machine to add an integration to AI service
Solution - Modify the state machine to add an integration to AI service

Building a Workflow with AI

Modifying the existing state machine to use Amazon Bedrock
Challenge - Integrate with Amazon Bedrock
Solution - Integrate with Amazon Bedrock
What is event-driven architecture
How to trigger a state machine when there is a new S3 file
How to send an email from the state machine
Challenge - Integrate to EventBridge event bus to send an event
Solution - Integrate to EventBridge event bus to send an event

Build a Chatbot with GenAI

What is an Amazon Bedrock agent
What you are going to build
Creating a Lambda function for the agent
Creating an Open API for the function
What is an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base
Creating a knowledge base
Creating an Amazon Bedrock agent
Challenge - Add another function to the agent
Solution - Add another function to the agent

Conclusion

What we built
Cleaning up the environment
Next steps