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Nimmala NAGA SANTHOSH BABA
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The AWS AI Architect's Cheat Sheet: Patterns, POCs, and Blueprints 🏗️

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Stop Reinventing the Wheel 🛑

When you start building with AI on AWS, you'll realize something quickly: Everyone is trying to solve the same problems.

  • "How do I chat with my PDF documents?" (RAG)
  • "How do I run this cheaply without managing servers?" (Serverless)
  • "How do I make the AI take action, not just talk?" (Agents)

The good news? AWS has already published production-ready blueprints for these.

In this post, I’ve curated the best architectural patterns and Proof-of-Concept (POC) repositories directly from the AWS team. Treat this as your "Cheat Sheet" for starting any AI project.

Pattern 1: The "Chat with Your Data" (RAG) 📚

The Problem: LLMs (like Claude or GPT) don't know about your private data. They hallucinate when asked about your specific company policies.

The Solution: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). You "retrieve" the right page from your documents first, then send it to the AI to "generate" an answer.

🏗️ The Architecture

  1. Ingestion: Upload PDFs to Amazon S3.
  2. Embedding: Amazon Titan converts text into numbers (vectors).
  3. Storage: Amazon OpenSearch Serverless stores these vectors.
  4. Retrieval: Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases finds the right chunk and answers the question.

🚀 The "One-Click" POC

Don't build this from scratch. AWS provides a fully managed solution where you just point to your S3 bucket.

Pattern 2: The "Penny Pincher" (Serverless AI) 💸

The Problem: Hosting your own AI models on GPU servers (EC2) costs a fortune ($1000s/mo), even when no one is using them.

The Solution: Serverless Generative AI. Use AWS Lambda to call Amazon Bedrock. You pay only for the milliseconds the AI is thinking. Zero idle cost.

🏗️ The Architecture

  1. Frontend: React/Next.js hosted on AWS Amplify.
  2. API: Amazon API Gateway receives the user's prompt.
  3. Brain: AWS Lambda (Python/Node.js) receives the request and calls Bedrock.
  4. Model: Bedrock generates the text/image and returns it.

🚀 The "One-Click" POC

This is the most cost-effective way to launch an MVP.

Pattern 3: The "Do-er" (AI Agents) 🕵️‍♂️

The Problem: Chatbots are passive. They can talk, but they can't do anything (like book a flight, query a database, or send an email).

The Solution: Amazon Bedrock Agents. You give the AI a set of "Tools" (Lambda functions), and it figures out which one to use to solve the user's problem.

🏗️ The Architecture

  1. User Request: "Book a meeting with John for next Tuesday."
  2. Agent Router: Bedrock Agent analyzes the request.
  3. Action: It decides to call the CheckCalendar tool first, then the SendInvite tool.
  4. Execution: It triggers the respective Lambda functions to actually perform the tasks.

🚀 The "One-Click" POC

Pattern 4: The "Event-Driven" Analyst ⚡

The Problem: You want AI to run automatically in the background—for example, every time a new file is uploaded, summarize it.

The Solution: EventBridge Pipes. Connect your S3 bucket directly to your AI workflow.

🏗️ The Architecture

  1. Trigger: User uploads a document to S3.
  2. Event: EventBridge detects the "Object Created" event.
  3. Process: It triggers a Step Function workflow.
  4. AI Task: The workflow calls Bedrock to summarize the document and saves the summary to a database.

🚀 The "One-Click" POC

Summary Checklist ✅

Use Case Recommended Pattern Key Services
Q&A on Documents RAG Bedrock Knowledge Bases, OpenSearch
Low-Cost MVP Serverless Lambda, API Gateway, Bedrock
Complex Tasks Agents Bedrock Agents, Lambda
Background Jobs Event-Driven EventBridge, Step Functions

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