AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Explanation

Amazon Titan Embeddings is a foundational model (FM) from AWS that specializes in text embeddings. In a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline:

1. Embeddings are numerical vector representations of text that capture semantic meaning

2. Amazon Titan Embeddings converts documents/text into these vector embeddings

3. These embeddings are then stored in a vector database

4. When a user query comes in, it's also converted to an embedding

5. The system performs a similarity search to find the most relevant documents

6. The retrieved documents are then used by a language model (like Amazon Titan Text) to generate answers

Why other options are incorrect:

• A: Generating answers is typically done by language models (like Amazon Titan Text), not embedding models

• C: SQL queries are unrelated to embedding models in RAG pipelines

• D: UI rendering is a frontend concern, not the function of an embedding model

Key takeaway: Amazon Titan Embeddings is specifically designed for creating vector representations of text, which is a crucial step in RAG pipelines for semantic search and retrieval.