AWS Discovery Day: Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Recorded on May 21, 2025
Learning Objectives
- Identify the fundamental concepts of FMs and LLMs
- Define prompt engineering and identify the best practices for designing effective prompts
- Identify the basic types of prompt techniques, including zero-shot, few-shot, and CoT techniques
Intended audience
- Prompt engineers
- Data scientists
- Developers
Event outline
Module 1: Foundation models
and large language models
In
this module, you will develop a fundamental understanding of FMs, including an
understanding of a subset of FMs called LLMs. First, you will be introduced to
the basic concepts of a foundation model, such as self-supervised learning and
fine-tuning. Next, you will learn about two types of FMs: text-to-text models
and text-to-image models. Finally, you will learn about LLMs' functionality and
use cases, the subset of foundation models that most often utilize prompt
engineering.
Module 2: Key concepts of
prompt engineering
In
this module, you are introduced more fully to prompt engineering, the set of
practices that focus on developing, designing, and optimizing prompts to
enhance the output of FMs for your specific business needs. Then, you learn
about the different elements of a prompt. Finally, the module provides a list
of general best practices for designing effective prompts, and you can
participate in voting for which prompts showcase those best practices.
Module 3: Basic prompt
techniques
In this module, you
will learn about basic prompt engineering techniques that can help you
effectively use generative AI applications for your unique business objectives.
First, the module defines zero-shot and few-shot prompting techniques. Then, it
defines CoT prompting, the building block for
several advanced prompting techniques. This module provides tips and examples
of each type of prompt. <
AWS
Discovery Days, hosted by official AWS Training Partners, introduce cloud
concepts, including generative AI, security, machine learning, migrations, and modern data
strategy. Expert AWS Instructors will help you learn what’s possible in the
cloud and how to achieve it with AWS.
About the presenter:
Myles Brown is the Director of Solution Engineering at Ascendient learning. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the IT industry across a variety of platforms. Recognized as an AWS Authorized Instructor Champion and a Google Cloud Professional Architect and Instructor, Myles has delivered award-winning authorized IT training for the biggest cloud providers.
