Slides and material
AWS Community Day Romania
The Romanian community day in Timișoara.
On the programme
From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant
With Philipp Bergsmann. Prototyping a GenAI assistant on a laptop and scaling it to a production workflow on Amazon Bedrock.
Under the session
The services doing the work
Read off the slides, not guessed. Each card says what that service did in this build, and links to the page explaining the capability and how to run it somewhere else.
InstructLab
The open-source pipeline behind the fine-tune: documents become Q&A pairs in YAML, synthetic data is generated from them, then the adapter is trained with LoRA. Model-agnostic, and it ran on a laptop.
Your own model
Amazon Bedrock
The workstation. Claude Sonnet 3.7, Amazon Nova Pro and the custom model are all served from one place.
Foundation models
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
Serves the fine-tuned Llama 3.1 3B as the UG Specialist, so the trained model needs no cluster of its own.
Your own model
CrewAI
Runs the crew: Q&A agent, agenda producer, header generator, speaker finder, GitHub planner and the UG Specialist.
AI agents
AWS App Runner
Runs the agent container. The whole system came to about 30 euros a month.
Serverless compute
Llama 3.1 3B
The open-weights base model that became the UG Specialist, adapted with LoRA rather than retrained.
Your own model
Amazon Nova Pro
The agent model, and the teacher that generated the synthetic training data.
Foundation models
Red Hat OpenShift AI
The alternative to training on a Mac: the same run as a Jupyter environment or an OpenShift pipeline.
Your own modelGo deeper
The longer write-ups
Where the builds behind these sessions are explained properly.
From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions
The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.
Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant
The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.
What is an AWS Community Day?
The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.
10 Years of AWS User Group Vienna
The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.
More slides
The same talk, other stages
Same session, a different room. Each page carries its own deck.
Work with me
Bring one of these into your own room
Every session here can be given as a conference talk, a company workshop or an internal briefing. Most started as a real project rather than as a slide deck.
Sources
Where all of this comes from
Every claim on this page traces back to the deck, the recap or the event's own site.
- aws-community.ro, the event's own site
- Slides: From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant, 2025
- Recap: From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant, 2025
- From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions
- Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant
- What is an AWS Community Day?
- 10 Years of AWS User Group Vienna
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