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Introduction
- The session covers how to scale high-traffic events to generative AI deployments with AWS support.
- The presenters introduce themselves - Neil Sandes, a Principal Technical Account Manager at AWS, and MK, a Technical Account Manager at AWS. They are also joined by Manish Sinha, the Senior Director of Advanced Analytics and AI at Georgia Pacific.
Common Challenges in Migrating Prototypes to Production
- 50% of all migration and modernization initiatives on the cloud will be delayed by at least 2 years, as reported by Gartner.
- The key reasons are:
- Underestimating the effort to take prototypes and scale them into production-ready deployments.
- Unprepared downtime and revenue loss (up to $100,000 per hour of downtime).
- Constantly working on reactive support mode, even after scaling the workloads, due to technical debt.
- The five common challenges discussed are:
- Integration with existing infrastructure
- Monitoring and observability
- Security
- Performance
- Cost management
Additional Considerations for Generative AI Workloads
- Generative AI brings additional complexities, such as:
- Data preparation at scale:
- Centralized data management
- Cleansing and validating data
- Sourcing ground truth data
- Evaluating model outputs
- MLOps:
- Continuous training, deployment, and version control of models
- Prompt consistency and library management
- Real-time error monitoring and reaction
- Security and governance:
- Preventing training data poisoning and prompt injection
- Securing and validating model outputs
- Cost management:
- Implementing financial controls
- Experimenting with smaller models
- Optimizing prompt engineering
AWS Well-Architected Framework
- The Well-Architected Framework is a comprehensive guide to build secure, fault-tolerant, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure.
- It provides design principles, best practices, and questions to assess the current architecture across six pillars: security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, operational excellence, and sustainability.
AWS Offerings to Support Generative AI Workloads
AWS Countdown
- AWS Countdown is offered in two flavors: Standard and Premium.
- Countdown Standard helps anticipate capacity needs and work with service teams to approve resource requests.
- Countdown Premium is an engineering-led offering that supports the entire journey from initial architecture to production deployment.
Reference Use Case: Fashion Retailer Product Description Generation
- The architecture involves a front-end web application, a serverless backend using AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.), and a Step Functions workflow to generate product descriptions.
- Key design decisions include:
- Choosing the right Generative AI model (Bedrock)
- Structuring the data strategy for input and output
- Implementing security best practices
- Enabling logging and cost optimization
- Scaling the solution
Georgia Pacific's Generative AI Journey
- Georgia Pacific is a large manufacturing company with 30-35,000 employees and $22 billion in revenue.
- The key drivers for their AI and Generative AI initiatives are:
- Labor scarcity and the need to transfer knowledge to the next generation of workers
- Automating undesirable and repetitive tasks in their manufacturing operations
- Improving overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and reducing operating envelope gaps
- The Operator Assistant use case:
- Combines real-time sensor data with unstructured data (procedures, manuals) to provide prescriptive guidance to operators.
- Went through an iterative process of deployment, feedback, and re-engineering to arrive at a scalable, production-ready solution.
- Leveraged AWS Countdown Premium to fast-track the journey and optimize the architecture.
- Key learnings and next steps:
- Parameterize the solution and use standard databases for easy maintainability.
- Optimize costs and performance, explore graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Investigate edge deployments for faster response times.
- Aim for rapid deployment and iteration, while building a robust, long-term architecture.
Additional Resources
- QR codes for Well-Architected Framework and AWS Countdown information
- Upcoming AWS re:Invent sessions on managing security for Generative AI workloads
- Recording of the MFG 2011 session on Georgia Pacific's Operator Assistant use case