Enabling generative AI self-service using Amazon Lex, Amazon Bedrock, and ServiceNow

Chat-based assistants have become an invaluable tool for providing automated customer service and support. This post builds on a previous post, Integrate QnABot on AWS with ServiceNow, and explores how to build an intelligent assistant using Amazon Lex, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and a custom ServiceNow integration to create an automated incident management support experience.

Amazon Lex is powered by the same deep learning technologies used in Alexa. With it, developers can quickly build conversational interfaces that can understand natural language, engage in realistic dialogues, and fulfill customer requests. Amazon Lex can be configured to respond to customer questions using Amazon Bedrock foundation models (FMs) to search and summarize FAQ responses. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases provides the capability of amassing data sources into a repository of information. Using knowledge bases, you can effortlessly create an application that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a technique where the retrieval of information from ...