Technical requirements

This chapter requires you to have access to an AWS account. If you don’t have one already, you can go to https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/ and create an AWS account.

Secondly, you will need to install and configure AWS CLI (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) after you create an account, which will be needed to access Amazon Bedrock FMs from your local machine. Since the majority chunk of code cells we will be executing is based in Python, setting up an AWS Python SDK (Boto3) (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/welcome.html) would be beneficial at this point. You can carry out the Python setup in these ways: install it on your local machine, or use AWS Cloud9, or AWS Lambda, or leverage Amazon SageMaker.

Note

There will be a charge associated with the invocation and customization of FMs of Amazon Bedrock. Please refer to https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/ to learn more.