Module 2

Use Foundation Models in Amazon Bedrock

Overview

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like Stability AI, Anthropic, and Meta, via a single API. It also provides the capabilities you need to build Generative AI applications with a focus on:

• Security
• Privacy
• Responsible AI

Because Amazon Bedrock is serverless, you don’t need to manage infrastructure. You can securely integrate and deploy Generative AI into your applications using familiar AWS services.

Module Objective

In this module, you’ll learn how to use Amazon Bedrock via the:

• ️ Console
• API

To generate:

• Text
• ️ Images

Model Access

Before building with Amazon Bedrock, you need to grant model access to your account.

️ Steps to Enable Model Access:

1. Go to the Model access page
2. Click the Enable specific models button
3. Select the checkboxes below to activate models (no cost to enable – pay only for usage):

Amazon (auto-selects all Amazon models)
Anthropic → Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2, Claude 3.5 Haiku
Meta
Mistral AI
Stability AI → SDXL 1.0

4. Click Request model access to finalize activation

Monitor Model Access

• Watch the status of each selected model
• It may take a few minutes for models to move from In Progress ️ Access granted
• Use the Refresh button to update the status

Make sure all selected models show Access granted

Congratulations!