Prerequisites for Knowledge bases for Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock

Prerequisites for Knowledge bases for Amazon Bedrock

Before you can create a knowledge base, you need to fulfill the following prerequisites:

  1. Prepare your source of data that contains the information that you want to supply to your knowledge base. You can connect to your source of data. See Supported data source connectors.

  2. (Optional) Set up a vector store of your choice. You can use the AWS Management Console to automatically create a vector store in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for you.

  3. (Optional) Create a custom AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service role with the proper permissions by following the instructions at Create a service role for Knowledge bases for Amazon Bedrock. You can skip this prerequisite if you plan to use the AWS Management Console to automatically create a service role for you.

  4. (Optional) Set up extra security configurations by following the steps at Encryption of knowledge base resources.

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