Evaluating GenAI Systems

Evaluation as infrastructure: Bedrock Model Evaluations, LLM-as-a-judge and RAG evaluation, golden datasets and regression gates, A/B and canary validation, agent performance frameworks, and feedback loops that feed annotation.

Content current as of 2026-10.

Lessons

1. Defining what good looks like
2. Evaluation pipelines and quality gates
3. Evaluating agents: task completion and tool effectiveness

Sources

• AIP-C01 exam guide — Content Domain 5: Testing, Validation, and Troubleshooting
• Amazon Bedrock user guide — evaluate the performance of Bedrock resources
• Amazon Bedrock Evaluations — evaluation types and metrics
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore developer guide — observability