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AWS Architecture for LLM, GenAI, RAG, and Graph

6 min readMay 5, 2025
AWS

Here’s a concise breakdown of what’s in the AWS contact center RAG architecture and modern AWS innovations/tools you can consider adding/enhancing for LLM, GenAI, RAG, and Graph-based use cases:

✅ Current Architecture Summary

  • Core Interaction:
  • Amazon Connect + Lex: Voice/chat → Lex bot
  • AWS Lambda: Fulfillment logic → interacts with LLMs & KB
  • Amazon Bedrock: Claude & Cohere embedding
  • Amazon OpenSearch Serverless: RAG KB indexing
  • Amazon S3: Document storage
  • Amazon SageMaker: LLM testing
  • CloudWatch + Athena + QuickSight: Analytics, logs, and dashboards

🚀 Modern AWS Additions to Enhance This Architecture

1. Amazon Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock (NEW)

  • Built-in RAG: No manual embedding/indexing needed.
  • Direct integration with Claude, Titan, Mistral, Llama2.
  • Secure and scalable for contact center FAQs, SOPs.

→ Replace OpenSearch + manual embed with this for simplicity.

2. Amazon Titan Models

  • Titan Text G1, Titan Embeddings G1:
  • Optimized for AWS native workloads
  • Good accuracy & cost-performance
  • Can replace Cohere embeddings in Bedrock

3. Amazon Neptune + Bedrock for Graph RAG

  • Use Amazon Neptune (Graph DB):
  • Create context-aware responses using entities/relationships.
  • Ideal for contact center use cases like product recommendations, account histories, support dependencies.
  • Use Neptune ML + Bedrock for hybrid Graph-RAG workflows.

4. Agent Assist with Amazon Q (for internal agents)

  • Auto-suggested answers to agents.
  • Integrate Amazon Q Developer Agent for internal workflow orchestration.

5. Vector Search with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL + pgvector

  • Use Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector to enable hybrid RAG + transactional DB in a single place.
  • Ideal if customer/CRM data is already in Aurora.

6. Amazon AppFabric (for SaaS integration)

  • Integrate Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow logs for richer LLM context (ideal in contact center scenarios).

7. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock

  • Native prompt filters, PII blocking, toxicity checks.
  • Useful to extend security in fulfillment function layer.

8. Amazon DataZone + Bedrock for Enterprise Context

  • Federated data access to S3, Redshift, RDS etc.
  • Feed knowledge into LLMs securely via Bedrock.

9. Amazon PartyRock (for internal prototyping)

  • Quickly test RAG flows or new ideas before deployment.

📌 Suggestions for Improvement

Area Suggestion LLM Evaluation Add PromptBench (open-source) or Amazon SageMaker Clarify to evaluate LLM responses. RAG Indexing Migrate to Amazon Knowledge Bases to reduce complexity. Graph Context Use Amazon Neptune + LLM for better connected Q&A. Storage Index Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda to trigger smart preprocessing on upload. Agent UX Add Amazon Q for contact center agents (internal-facing copilot). Observability Add Amazon CloudTrail Lake for deeper insight beyond CloudWatch.

Here’s a focused breakdown of Amazon Bedrock in the context of this architecture, including what it does, how it fits, and what more you can do with it using the latest AWS innovations:

✅ Current Role of Amazon Bedrock in This Architecture

  • Models Used:
  • Anthropic Claude (Haiku, Sonnet): For generating answers
  • Cohere Embed v3: For semantic embedding of documents
  • Tasks:
  • Response generation
  • Embedding via Cohere
  • Guardrails and evaluation logic via Lambda

🚀 Modern Capabilities in Amazon Bedrock You Can Leverage

1. Amazon Knowledge Bases for Bedrock (NEW — 2024)

  • Built-in RAG with no manual vector DB or embedding setup.
  • Supports ingestion from S3, websites, Salesforce, etc.
  • Automatically uses Titan or Claude behind the scenes.

Replace this part of your diagram:

Amazon S3 + OpenSearch + manual Cohere embedding
→ Use Amazon Knowledge Base with Bedrock instead

2. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails (NEW)

  • Define prohibited topics, allowed responses, and safety filters.
  • Supports moderation at prompt input & response output.
  • Integrates with Claude, Titan, and Mistral models.

Use case: In fulfillment Lambda → Add Bedrock Guardrails for:

  • Hallucination control
  • PII filtering
  • Bias/toxicity control

3. Agents for Amazon Bedrock

  • Lets you create multi-step conversational agents.
  • Define tools/functions (e.g., API calls, DB reads).
  • Automate complex business flows using LLM.

Use case: Replace manual Lambda orchestration with Bedrock agent that can:

  • Read user input
  • Trigger APIs
  • Retrieve from RAG
  • Generate final output

4. Supported Foundation Models (FMs)

Use new FMs directly from Bedrock:

  • Anthropic Claude 3
  • Meta Llama 2/3
  • Mistral
  • Amazon Titan
  • Cohere Command-R

Pick based on: Cost, latency, token limits, reasoning.

5. Streaming + Low-latency Inference

  • Supports streaming responses for faster UX
  • Useful in real-time contact center flows

🔁 Optional Enhancements with Bedrock

Enhancement | Tool | Impact

Native RAG Bedrock + Knowledge Base Simpler setup, high performance

Safety Bedrock Guardrails Reduce hallucination & risk

Conversational Flow Bedrock Agents No manual Lambda FSM

Graph-enhanced answers Neptune + Bedrock Better context for complex queries

Response speed Bedrock Streaming Better UX for chat-like UIs

If you need to integrate a graph database into this architecture on AWS (especially for context-rich LLM responses, entity linking, or decision reasoning), the go-to service is:

🧠 Amazon Neptune — AWS Managed Graph Database

✅ Use Cases in LLM + RAG Context

  • Entity linking: Resolve ambiguous terms via graph traversal.
  • Personalized answers: Use graph to tailor based on user profile/intent.
  • Relationship-aware Q&A: Example: “Which agents have handled both Product A and B cases?”
  • Knowledge Graph RAG: Supplement text-based RAG with structured semantic relationships.

📌 How to Integrate into Your Architecture

  1. Document Upload / Knowledge Source Ingestion:
  • When uploading documents to S3, extract entities & relationships using:
  • Amazon Comprehend (or custom model)
  • Amazon SageMaker + spaCy or LangChain parser
  • Push triples into Neptune.
  1. Link Neptune with Bedrock (via Lambda):
  • At runtime, fetch related facts from Neptune
  • Inject into prompt via LangChain Tool / Function Call
  • Claude/Titan gets graph context + retrieved docs = better answers
  1. Store Conversation Graph:
  • Create user-session graphs showing what was asked, which intents resolved
  • Analyze later in QuickSight or SageMaker

🛠 Tools to Use

  • Amazon Neptune ML: To do graph embeddings & reasoning (built-in SageMaker)
  • LangChain: Built-in Neptune integration
  • Neptune Streams: Real-time updates to apps when graph changes
  • IAM + VPC: Ensure private access from Lambda/Bedrock to Neptune

🧩 Sample Add-On Workflow

Customer question → Amazon Lex → Lambda (calls Neptune for entity resolution)
→ Lambda queries RAG (via Bedrock) + enriches with graph facts
→ LLM response includes accurate, structured insight

Here’s how you can enhance the existing contact center RAG solution architecture with new AWS innovations (as of 2024–2025):

🔹 1. Amazon Bedrock Enhancements

  • New Foundation Models (FMs) now available:
  • Cohere Command R+ / Embed v3: Great for multilingual semantic search and summarization.
  • Stability AI: Enable image generation (e.g., visual summaries or diagrams in contact center dashboards).
  • Claude 3 / Sonnet / Haiku: Improved reasoning, lower hallucination, better for safety-critical workflows.

✅ What to add:

  • Use Claude 3 Sonnet for improved hallucination detection and conversational quality.
  • Add Cohere Embed v3 to handle multilingual RAG and user queries.
  • Optionally add Stability AI for visual response generation (e.g., charts/diagrams in product support).

🔹 2. Amazon Q Integration

  • Amazon Q: GenAI assistant now integrated with Amazon Connect and other AWS services.
  • Use Q for Agents: Automatically summarize calls, suggest actions, and provide live answers.
  • Use Q for Developers: Help internal teams debug and deploy improvements in Lambda, Lex, and Bedrock workflows.

✅ What to add:

  • Integrate Amazon Q Agent Assist in Amazon Connect flow for real-time suggestions and summarization.
  • Embed Q analytics to enhance QuickSight dashboards with natural language insights.

🔹 3. Graph Reasoning with Amazon Neptune

  • Add Amazon Neptune for:
  • Knowledge Graph + RAG Hybrid.
  • Entity resolution, reasoning, semantic memory, user-persona linking.
  • Combine Neptune ML + Bedrock via Lambda or LangChain.

✅ What to add:

  • Store structured knowledge as RDF/triples.
  • During RAG, fetch graph facts and add to prompt before LLM call.

🔹 4. New LangChain + AWS Integrations

  • Use LangChain AWS Toolkit for:
  • Neptune integration for structured reasoning.
  • Bedrock tool calling, agents, and multi-hop chains.

✅ What to add:

  • Use LangGraph + Bedrock to orchestrate complex dialogues across Lex, Bedrock, Neptune, and OpenSearch.

🔹 5. Vector Store Upgrade

  • Consider replacing OpenSearch with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL + pgvector for:
  • Faster semantic search.
  • Tighter integration with RDS ecosystem.

Optional Enhancement.

🧠 Final Enhanced Stack (Key Adds)

  • Amazon Bedrock:
  • Claude 3 Sonnet, Cohere Embed v3, Stability AI
  • Amazon Q:
  • Agent Assist in Amazon Connect
  • Amazon Neptune:
  • Graph-based reasoning, persona modeling
  • LangChain + LangGraph:
  • Complex workflows, agent memory
  • Optionally:
  • Use Aurora + pgvector for hybrid RAG

Check my several template codes to start or customise your solution here.

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Dhiraj Patra
Dhiraj Patra

Written by Dhiraj Patra

AI Strategy, Generative AI, AI & ML Consulting, Product Development, Startup Advisory, Data Architecture, Data Analytics, Executive Mentorship, Value Creation

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