OpenShift AI on AWS · Guided lab

Run AI on your own platform next to Amazon Bedrock.

A guided run of the Red Hat lab OpenShift AI on AWS: an insurance claims story with LLMs on Amazon Bedrock, retrieval, computer vision, model serving on OpenShift and a GitOps deployment. About two hours hands-on, plus a debrief on what it means for your platform.

  • €2,000 per group
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI
  • ROSA and Amazon Bedrock
  • English or German
Why this lab

Layer 4, tried before it is bought.

Teams evaluating Red Hat OpenShift AI[3] usually ask the same thing: what does it feel like for data scientists, and how does it sit next to managed AWS services? This lab answers both on one ROSA cluster[5].

The lab uses a fictional insurer, Parasol, as its story[1][2]. Any time or cost figures in the story belong to that scenario, not to a real customer. What is real is the platform: workbenches, data connections, notebooks, model serving and deployment.

I ran all sections end to end in September 2026, including the optional model retraining and serving, and deliver it with the questions people actually get stuck on.

Your team leaves knowing what they would operate, not only what the demo shows.
OpenShift AI on ROSA: workbench and the Parasol web app on the cluster; Amazon Bedrock with Nova Pro and a Bedrock Knowledge Base as managed services.
What runs where: the workbench and the app on the ROSA cluster, the large model and the knowledge base as managed Bedrock services.Source: Linda Mohamed, lecture “Von Managed zu Hybrid: KI-Architekturen”, Hochschule Burgenland, 2026
The lab

Seven sections, one claims app.

Lab components: browser tabs, the ROSA cluster with workbench pod, MinIO, OpenVINO Model Server, Flan-T5 and Argo CD, and Amazon Bedrock with Nova Pro and a knowledge base.
Browser, cluster, Bedrock: every component the attendees touch.Source: Linda Mohamed, walkthrough of the Red Hat lab OpenShift AI on AWS, September 2026
Table mapping prototype capabilities to lab notebooks: summarisation, information extraction, sentiment, object detection, damage severity, web app.
What the prototype does for the claims adjuster, and which notebook builds it.Source: Linda Mohamed, walkthrough of the Red Hat lab OpenShift AI on AWS, September 2026
Outcomes

What your team can do afterwards.

1

Work in OpenShift AI

Data science projects, workbenches, connections and cluster storage.

2

Call Bedrock from the cluster

Amazon Nova Pro[6] through LangChain for summarisation, extraction and sentiment, next to a small model running in the cluster.

3

Add retrieval

Answers grounded in documents through an Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base[7].

4

Serve a vision model

Object detection with YOLOv8[9], retraining, ONNX export and serving with OpenVINO Model Server[8].

5

Deploy with GitOps

The claims app deployed through Argo CD[10].

Comparison of full retraining, fine-tuning and retrieval: cost and what the lab says.
One of the lab's lessons: retrieval is usually the cheapest way to give a model your knowledge; fine-tuning and retraining come later.Source: Linda Mohamed, walkthrough of the Red Hat lab OpenShift AI on AWS, September 2026
Price

One guided lab, €2,000.

One workshop block for your group. Lab environments are provided through Red Hat or your own ROSA cluster; cluster and AWS usage are not included. Net, plus VAT.

OpenShift AI on AWS guided lab

Environment check, guided lab and debrief, remote or on-site.

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AWS services

The AWS services behind this work.

Plain-language notes on the services I use for this kind of project. Each name links to the official AWS documentation.

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Managed OpenShift clusters in your AWS account. The base for running OpenShift AI next to other AWS services.

Amazon Bedrock

Managed access to foundation models from several providers through one API. You choose the model and write the prompt; AWS runs the model.

Amazon Nova

Amazon's own foundation models on Bedrock, used for example in the OpenShift AI on AWS lab.

Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Retrieval-augmented generation: your documents are chunked, embedded and stored in a vector store, and the relevant parts go into the prompt.

Amazon SageMaker AI

Managed platform for the whole machine learning lifecycle: notebooks, training jobs, model registry and endpoints.

Amazon EC2 G6e instances

GPU instances with NVIDIA L40S cards for self-hosted inference, for example with vLLM.

Questions

What people ask before booking.

What does the lab cost?

€2,000 net for one guided block with your group. Cluster and AWS usage are billed separately to whoever provides the environment.

Who owns the lab content?

Red Hat. The lab and the Parasol demo application are published on GitHub. I deliver it as a guided session with a debrief.

Do we need a ROSA cluster?

Either your own ROSA cluster with OpenShift AI and Bedrock access, or an environment provided for the session. We check this before the date.

Are the Parasol figures real?

No. Parasol Insurance is a fictional company used as the lab's story.

Which level is it?

Data scientists and platform engineers comfortable with Jupyter notebooks and a terminal.

Linda Mohamed, AWS Community Hero, AI and cloud architect in Vienna
Who runs it

Linda Mohamed

AWS Community HeroAWS User Group Vienna organiserLecturer, Hochschule BurgenlandAmazon Bedrock · SageMaker AI · OpenShift AIEN & DE

I design and build AI and cloud systems on AWS and hybrid platforms, and I teach how they work. I have organised the AWS User Group Vienna for more than seven years, co-organise AWS Community Day DACH, teach AI architectures at Hochschule Burgenland, speak at conferences in Europe and the US, and maintain ai-solutions.wiki. Based in Vienna. Remote or on-site, in English or German.

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