Foundations of Prompt Engineering
AWS Skill Builder
Last updated April 20, 2026
Foundations of Prompt Engineering is a free, four-hour course on the principles, techniques, and best practices for writing prompts that get reliable results from generative AI models. It starts with the basics — a grounding in how foundation models work and the fundamentals of prompt engineering — then builds up through basic and advanced prompt techniques to more specialized ground: prompting across multiple modalities such as images, adapting prompts to a particular domain or to a specific model, and the harder questions of guarding against prompt misuse, the ethics of prompt design, and mitigating bias in a model's responses. It is a deeper, more thorough treatment than a one-hour primer, delivered as interactive eLearning, with its examples framed on Amazon Bedrock.
What you'll learn
- Foundation-model basics + prompt-engineering fundamentals
- Basic and advanced prompt techniques
- Multimodal prompt engineering
- Domain-specific and model-specific prompting
- Guarding against prompt misuse
- The ethics of prompt engineering and mitigating bias
Frequently asked questions about Foundations of Prompt Engineering
Who is Foundations of Prompt Engineering for?
Prompt engineers, data scientists, and developers who want a thorough, hands-on-with-examples grounding in prompt engineering — from the fundamentals through advanced, multimodal, and responsible prompting.
Is Foundations of Prompt Engineering free?
Yes — Foundations of Prompt Engineering is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Foundations of Prompt Engineering?
An introductory generative AI course, a generative AI project-planning course, and an Amazon Bedrock getting-started course recommended first.
Why we suggest this course
A thorough grounding in prompt engineering that goes well beyond the basics — through advanced, multimodal, domain-specific, and model-specific techniques, and on into the responsible side: guarding against misuse, ethics, and bias. A good fit for someone who has met prompting at an introductory level and wants the fuller, more technical treatment. One thing to know: it is built by AWS and its examples are framed around Amazon Bedrock, though the prompting principles themselves transfer to other models and tools.