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GenAI and Amazon Bedrock Training

Fall 2025

Curious on how National Security uses AI?

Learn how Generative AI (GenAI) can help generate content and help organizations in National Security and Defense accomplish their mission. 

Led by an instructor, you will gain the foundations of using GenAI in the AWS Dedicated cloud and participate in two hands-on Jams (labs) to develop practical skills in prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agent-based applications. 

In a cohort of other students, you will learn to:

  • Enable and use foundation models in Amazon Bedrock
  • Write effective prompts for text and image generation using AI models in Amazon Bedrock
  • Build agent-based applications using Amazon Bedrock
  • Build a RAG workflow in Amazon Bedrock

This course has two cohort offerings to allow students to pick the time that is most convenient for them to learn GenAI Essentials on AWS! 

Cohort 1: Sept. 8 & 12 from 5 to 9 pm

Cohort 2: Sept. 22 & 23 from 5 to 9 pm

The hands-on AWS Jam lab will be on Sept. 29th from 5 to 9 pm!

Get ahead of the curve!

Fill out the interest form below to register now to be a part of the Fall 2025 cohort!