Category: Technical How-to

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent harness with Amazon Quick and fal, connected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using two hands-on workflows: an eight-panel storyboard and a music-video concept prototype.

Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageMaker AI with two capabilities that land billing, usage, and per-GPU metrics directly in your own Amazon CloudWatch account.

Serving automatic speech recognition (ASR) models at scale is costly when each request uses only a fraction of a GPU. Learn how NVIDIA CUDA Multi-Process Service (MPS) with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon EC2 GPU instances cuts GPU infrastructure by 75% while holding sub-second latency at 92.1 requests per second per GPU.

The SageMaker Python SDK v3 redesigns script mode with unified ModelTrainer and ModelBuilder classes. This post walks through two end-to-end examples, a scikit-learn Random Forest and a multi-GPU Stable Diffusion 3.5 LoRA fine-tune, showing how SourceCode syncs your local code into any container at runtime so you can iterate without rebuilding Docker images.

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in one account can generate answers from an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base backed by Amazon Redshift Serverless in another account, without copying source data. This post covers the architecture, security boundary, and two orchestration models: a code-based Strands agent and a declarative AgentCore harness.

Build a governed weekly reporting workflow with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. An Amazon S3 access point exposes an approved folder to a Quick knowledge base, and a custom skill drafts cited weekly reports and Slack summaries with human review before anything is shared.

Learn how to build a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system on AWS that captures and delivers institutional (tribal) knowledge through a voice-first AI avatar. The accelerator uses Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for retrieval-augmented generation and deploys in hours with AWS CloudFormation.

Learn how to build a voice ordering system for restaurants that answers a phone call and takes an order end to end, with no app, no website, and no sign-in. It uses Amazon Connect for telephony, Amazon Connect Agentic Voice for real-time speech, an Amazon Connect AI agent for reasoning, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway to reach backend tools through MCP.

Metadata harmonization (standardizing labels, identifiers, and formats so datasets can work together) is still largely manual. This post shows how AI-powered metadata correction works in practice, covering two approaches, human-in-the-loop validation and autonomous agent-driven workflows, plus governance considerations for production deployment.

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governed tool gateway with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, advancing only when real governance pain demands it.