Slides and material

AWS Community Day Slovakia

The first edition of AWS Community Day Slovakia, in Košice.

awscommunityday.sk

On the programme

From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant

2025 · Košice

With Philipp Bergsmann. Training an AI-powered Slackbot with InstructLab and deploying it on Amazon Bedrock, and the real bottlenecks: slow training on laptops, inconsistent retrieval, and debugging.

Under the session

The services doing the work

Ordinary building blocks. Each one links to the page explaining that capability and how to run it elsewhere.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock

Serves the assistant once it left the laptop.

Foundation models and LLMs
AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda

Runs the agents and the Slack glue, scale to zero.

Serverless compute
Amazon S3

Amazon S3

Holds the documents the assistant retrieves from.

Object storage

Go 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.

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.

Talks and moderationWorkshopsBook 30 minutes

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.

  1. awscommunityday.sk, the event's own site
  2. Slides: From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant, 2025
  3. Recap: From MacBook to Bedrock: Lessons from Building an AI Assistant, 2025
  4. From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions
  5. Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant
  6. What is an AWS Community Day?
  7. 10 Years of AWS User Group Vienna

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