AWS Advanced Tier Partner

RAG-Based Enterprise Knowledge Assistant

DS Enterprises — Intelligent Knowledge Discovery Platform

Executive Summary

Mist Avinya Technologies LLP designed and deployed a secure, serverless Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform on AWS, enabling DS Enterprises employees to access accurate, citation-backed internal knowledge using natural language queries.

70%
Reduction in Information Retrieval Time
92%
Retrieval Relevance Accuracy
3.8s
P95 Response Latency
52%
Reduction in Repetitive Questions

About the Customer

DS Enterprises is an SMB enterprise software company that develops cloud-hosted workflow automation products for mid-market organizations. The company maintains a large internal knowledge base distributed across multiple repositories and collaboration platforms.

Business Context

With approximately 350 employees across engineering, operations, and customer success teams, DS Enterprises faced growing operational inefficiencies caused by fragmented documentation spread across Confluence, SharePoint, Git repositories, and S3-hosted files.

Employees struggled to quickly locate accurate and up-to-date information, impacting onboarding speed, engineering productivity, and incident resolution workflows.

Key Challenges

  • Knowledge distributed across disconnected platforms
  • Frequent usage of outdated SOPs and runbooks
  • Extended onboarding timelines for new employees
  • Senior engineers overloaded with repetitive internal questions
  • Slow information retrieval impacting operational efficiency

Project Goals & Objectives

The engagement focused on improving enterprise knowledge accessibility, reducing employee search time, and delivering grounded AI-generated responses with secure access controls.

Reduce Information Retrieval Time

Decrease the average time employees spend searching for internal knowledge by at least 50 percent.

Accelerate Employee Onboarding

Reduce new-hire ramp-up duration from 6 weeks to under 4 weeks using AI-powered contextual assistance.

Improve Knowledge Accessibility

Provide a conversational interface capable of retrieving accurate, citation-backed answers from enterprise documentation.

Implement Secure AI Access

Enforce role-based access control ensuring employees only retrieve information they are authorized to access.

Solution Overview

Mist Avinya implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform using Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch Serverless, and serverless AWS services to deliver grounded enterprise search and conversational AI capabilities.

RAG Pipeline Workflow

  • Ingests documents from Confluence, SharePoint, Git, and Amazon S3
  • Processes and chunks content using semantic chunking strategies
  • Generates embeddings using Amazon Titan Embeddings V2
  • Stores vectors in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
  • Performs semantic retrieval and re-ranking for user queries
  • Generates grounded answers using Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Platform Capabilities

  • Natural language conversational search
  • Inline source citations for every response
  • Real-time incremental document indexing
  • Role-based document access filtering
  • PII redaction and grounding validation
  • Fully serverless AWS-native deployment

AWS Services Used

The solution leveraged AWS-native AI, serverless, observability, and security services to build a scalable enterprise knowledge platform.

Amazon Bedrock

Used Claude 3.5 Sonnet for grounded conversational response generation with citation support.

Bedrock Knowledge Bases

Managed RAG orchestration, retrieval configuration, and integration with vector storage.

OpenSearch Serverless

Served as the vector database supporting scalable semantic search with metadata filtering.

Titan Embeddings V2

Generated semantic vector embeddings for documents and user queries.

AWS Lambda

Powered ingestion pipelines, chunking workflows, re-ranking logic, and API operations.

Amazon Textract

Extracted structured text from scanned PDF documents and legacy image-based content.

Security & Responsible AI

Security, governance, grounding validation, and enterprise-grade Responsible AI controls were integrated throughout the architecture.

Security & Access Control

  • Federated authentication using Amazon Cognito and Okta
  • Role-based document access filtering
  • Private VPC deployment with isolated subnets
  • AWS WAF protection and API throttling
  • KMS encryption for data at rest
  • CloudTrail logging and compliance monitoring

Responsible AI Controls

  • Grounding checks with Bedrock Guardrails
  • Inline citations for every generated answer
  • PII redaction for sensitive enterprise information
  • Denied-topic enforcement policies
  • Feedback workflow for human review and refinement
  • Hallucination reduction through context-only prompting

Business Outcomes

The RAG-based knowledge assistant significantly improved operational productivity, onboarding efficiency, and enterprise knowledge accessibility.

KPI Baseline Target Actual Result
Information Retrieval Time 45–60 Minutes Per Day 50% Reduction Under 15 Minutes
↓ 70% Reduction
New Hire Ramp-Up 6 Weeks Under 4 Weeks 3.5 Weeks
✓ Target Exceeded
Retrieval Relevance Accuracy Manual Search Process 90% or Higher 92% Accuracy
✓ Target Exceeded
P95 Response Latency N/A Under 5 Seconds 3.8 Seconds
✓ Target Exceeded

Architecture — High Availability & Scalability

The solution was designed using a fully serverless AWS-native architecture optimized for scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

DS Enterprises Architecture Diagram

High Availability

All AWS services including OpenSearch Serverless, Lambda, Bedrock, API Gateway, Cognito, and Amazon S3 operate across multiple Availability Zones with no single point of failure.

Scalability & Performance

The platform dynamically scales using serverless AWS services, OpenSearch Serverless auto-scaling, Lambda concurrency scaling, and API Gateway throttling to support high query volumes efficiently.