Use Explore mode to chat with a model - Amazon Bedrock Studio

Amazon Bedrock Studio, renamed to Amazon Bedrock IDE, is now available in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. Amazon Bedrock Studio will be available until February 28, 2025. You may access existing workspaces in this previous version through February 28, 2025, but you may not create new workspaces. To access the enhanced GA version of Amazon Bedrock Studio with additional features and capabilities, you can create a new Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio domain. To learn about Amazon Bedrock Studio IDE, see the documentation.

Use Explore mode to chat with a model

These instructions show you how to use the playground in Explore mode to chat with a model. You chat with a model by sending a prompt to the model and by receiving the response that the model generates. You continue the chat by sending further prompts.

To chat with a model

  1. Open the invitation email sent to you by your organization.

  2. In the email, choose the link to the workspace that you are invited to.

  3. Choose Sign in with SSO to open your Amazon Bedrock Studio workspace.

    Sign in to an Amazon Bedrock Studio workspace.

  4. Enter your the user name that you use to access your organization's resources and choose Next.

  5. Enter your password and choose Sign in.

  6. In the welcome to Amazon Bedrock Studio dialog box, choose Start exploring to start using the playground. The dialog box isn't shown if you have previously used the workspace.

  7. Make sure that you are in the Explore mode, by choosing Explore at the top right of the page.

    Amazon Bedrock Studio explore mode.

  8. For Model select a model to use, or use the default model.

  9. In the Quick start prompts section at the bottom of the page, choose one of prompts.

    Quick start prompts in Amazon Bedrock Studio explore mode.

    The playground sends the prompt to the model and shows the text that the model generated in response. Continue the chat until you are ready for the next step.

  10. Choose Reset to clear the playground.

  11. In the Enter prompt text box, enter What is Avebury stone circle?.

  12. Press Ctrl + Enter on your keyboard to send the prompt to the model. Amazon Bedrock Studio shows the response from the model in the playground.

  13. Continue the chat by entering the prompt Is there a museum there? and pressing Ctrl + Enter.

    The response shows how the model uses the previous prompt as context for generating its next response.

  14. Some models are multimodal in that that they can process text and images. To try analyzing an image, do the following.

    1. In Model choose Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet.

    2. Choose the image button at the left of the Enter prompt text box.

    3. In the open file dialog box, choose an image from your local computer.

    4. In the text box, next to the image that you uploaded, enter What's in this image?

      Describe an image with Amazon Bedrock Studio explore mode.

    5. Press Ctrl + Enter on your keyboard enter to send the prompt to the mode. The playground will show the image and underneath the image show a description of the image.

  15. (Optional) Try using another model and different prompts. Different models have different recommendations for creating, or engineering, prompts. For more information, see Prompt engineering guides.

Now that you are familiar with the explorer playground, try creating a Bedrock Studio app next. For more information, see Build a chat app with Amazon Bedrock Studio.