Smart Grocery Sorter: Building a Serverless AI App with Amazon Bedrock

Description and use

Smart Grocery Sorter automatically categorizes grocery lists with Amazon Bedrock, eliminating manual sorting.

Problem

Manually organizing grocery lists is time‑consuming and repetitive.

Outcome

The application automatically organizes unstructured grocery lists into categories such as Fruits, Vegetables, Dairy, Grains, Meat, and Household Supplies within seconds, eliminating manual effort.

Workflow

• Enter grocery items one per line in the web interface.
• Click "Sort List" to send a JSON payload to Amazon API Gateway via Fetch API.
• API Gateway triggers a Python Lambda function that builds a prompt for Amazon Bedrock.
• Amazon Nova Lite processes the list and returns categorized items.
• Lambda formats the response as JSON and returns it through API Gateway.
• Frontend receives the JSON and displays the organized list in the browser.

Evidence

I built Smart Grocery Sorter, a lightweight AI-powered web application that automatically organizes grocery items into meaningful categories using Amazon Bedrock and AWS serverless services.

Source

The frontend is hosted on Netlify, while the backend logic and AI processing run on AWS.

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Amazon Nova Lite processes the list and organizes the items into relevant grocery categories.

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