AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Context Engineering

Treat the context window as a budget you allocate rather than a box you fill: what competes for the space, why more context can make answers worse, and the strategies that decide what earns a place in the prompt.

Intermediate 20 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Define the context window and identify everything that consumes it
  2. Explain the difference between the hard context limit and quality degradation within it
  3. Distinguish context engineering from prompt engineering
  4. Compare the strategies for keeping a context window within budget