Explore Amazon Bedrock Studio

Amazon Bedrock Studio is a web app that lets you easily protoype apps that use Amazon Bedrock models and features.

Amazon Bedrock Studio provides an Explore mode that lets you use a playground to easily experiment with a model. In the playground you can chat with a model by sending prompts to the model and viewing the responses. After experimenting with the playground, you can then use build mode to create a chat app or a Prompt Flows app.

To get started with Amazon Bedrock Studio, you need an email invitation to an Amazon Bedrock Studio workspace. If you haven't received the invitation email from your organization, contact your organization's adminstrator.

Your organization's administrator determines the Amazon Bedrock Studio features that you have access to. If you need access to a model or feature that you don't currently have access to, contact your organization's adminstrator.

What is a prompt?

A prompt is input you send to a model in order for it to generate a response, in a process known as inference. For example, you could send the following prompt to a model.

What is Avebury stone circle?

When you run the prompt in the playground, the playground shows a response from the model that is similar to the following.

Avebury stone circle is a Neolithic monument located in Wiltshire, England. 
It consists of a massive circular bank and ditch, with a large outer circle of standing stones
that originally numbered around 100.

The Explore mode playground provides quick start prompts that illustrate the kinds of prompt that you can send to a model.

The Explore playground also lets you try multimodal prompts, which are prompts that include images and text. This allows you to pass an image to a model and ask questions such as What's in this image?. Not all models support multimodal prompts.

The actual response that you get for a prompt depends on the model you use.

With Amazon Bedrock models you can use inference parameters to influence the response from a model. For example, you can use the temperature inference parameter to filter out lower probability responses. To experiment with inference parameters, or use an Amazon Bedrock component, such as a guardrail, you need to create a Bedrock Studio app. You can create a chat app or a Prompt Flows app. If you create a Prompt Flows app, you can also create prompts that you can customize for different use cases. For more information, see Use prompts with your app.

Use Explore mode to chat with a model

These instructions show you how to use the playground in Explore mode to chat with a model. You chat with a model by sending a prompt to the model and by receiving the response that the model generates. You continue the chat by sending further prompts.

To chat with a model

1. Open the invitation email sent to you by your organization.

2. In the email, choose the link to the workspace that you are invited to.

3. Choose Sign in with SSO to open your Amazon Bedrock Studio workspace.

   

4. Enter your the user name that you use to access your organization's resources and choose Next.

5. Enter your password and choose Sign in.

6. In the welcome to Amazon Bedrock Studio dialog box, choose Start exploring to start using the playground. The dialog box isn't shown if you have previously used the workspace.

7. Make sure that you are in the Explore mode, by choosing Explore at the top right of the page.

   

8. For Model select a model to use, or use the default model.

9. In the Quick start prompts section at the bottom of the page, choose one of prompts.

   

   The playground sends the prompt to the model and shows the text that the model generated in response. Continue the chat until you are ready for the next step.

10. Choose Reset to clear the playground.

11. In the Enter prompt text box, enter What is Avebury stone circle?.

12. Press Ctrl + Enter on your keyboard to send the prompt to the model. Amazon Bedrock Studio shows the response from the model in the playground.

13. Continue the chat by entering the prompt Is there a museum there? and pressing Ctrl + Enter.

    The response shows how the model uses the previous prompt as context for generating its next response.

14. Some models are multimodal in that that they can process text and images. To try analyzing an image, do the following.

    1. In Model choose Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet.

    2. Choose the image button at the left of the Enter prompt text box.

    3. In the open file dialog box, choose an image from your local computer.

    4. In the text box, next to the image that you uploaded, enter What's in this image?

       

    5. Press Ctrl + Enter on your keyboard enter to send the prompt to the mode. The playground will show the image and underneath the image show a description of the image.

15. (Optional) Try using another model and different prompts. Different models have different recommendations for creating, or engineering, prompts. For more information, see Prompt engineering guides.

Now that you are familiar with the explorer playground, try creating a Bedrock Studio app next. For more information, see Build a chat app with Amazon Bedrock Studio.