Artificial Intelligence
Category: Best Practices
Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 2: Advanced data strategies
The advanced side of supervised fine-tuning data prep. This second post in a two-part series covers evaluating data readiness with learning curves, selecting high-value data subsets, augmenting data with synthetic and distilled examples, and mixing data sources to prevent catastrophic forgetting.
Preparing data for supervised fine-tuning Part 1: Formatting and quality
Data preparation determines the ceiling of any supervised fine-tuning project. This first post in a two-part series covers the foundations of SFT data prep: quality checks, conversational (JSONL) formatting, reasoning and tool-calling schemas, and a representative train/evaluation split.
Scaling agentic AI: Enterprise patterns without vendor lock-in
Scaling agentic AI across an enterprise requires patterns that preserve flexibility while avoiding vendor lock-in. In this second post of our multi-agent series, we examine how ML teams operate many agentic AI systems across a multi-everything environment of frameworks, models, and providers, and the principles that let those systems scale together.
AWS vector solutions: Build agentic AI where your data lives
AWS offers a broad portfolio of vector search built directly into the databases and storage services you already use, with no standalone vector database or data migration required. This post covers six purpose-built services, a decision framework for choosing the right engine, and customer proof points for each.
Deploying Anthropic Claude apps gateway for AWS for enterprise workloads
Claude apps gateway is a self-hosted governance layer between Claude Code and Claude Desktop and Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. This post presents a production reference deployment covering end-to-end architecture, enterprise deployment patterns, cost, and implementation resources.
Best practices for applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to code generation workflows
In this post, we explain how Amazon Bedrock Guardrails can be configured for code generation workflows with coding assistants to overcome these constraints. With these best practices, you can build an efficient blueprint helping you with effective capacity planning with robust safety coverage.
Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova
In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Distilled Reasoning (SDR), validate it across three benchmarks, and provide practical recommendations.
How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS
In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, governance, scaling and deployment, and the AI-specific optimizations Smartsheet built on AWS.
MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs
In this post, we show where MCP tool design goes wrong and how to fix it with practical context engineering approaches.
Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick
In this post, we walk through what Dataset Enrichment is, how it differs from legacy Topics, and provide three migration scenarios with step-by-step guidance so you can move your business context into the dataset layer with confidence.









