Syllaro Academy

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Customization Tradeoffs

Prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, and continued pre-training form a ladder of rising cost. This lesson maps what each one changes, what problem it solves, and why you start at the cheap end.

Intermediate 18 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Order the customization approaches from lowest to highest cost and complexity
  2. Explain what each approach changes and what problem it solves
  3. Explain why AWS advises starting with prompt engineering and RAG before fine-tuning
  4. Match a scenario to the cheapest approach that solves it