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Julien Simon

Author: Julien Simon

As an Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Evangelist for EMEA, Julien focuses on helping developers and enterprises bring their ideas to life.

Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training Deep Learning Models With Billions of Parameters

Today, I’m extremely happy to announce that Amazon SageMaker simplifies the training of very large deep learning models that were previously difficult to train due to hardware limitations. In the last 10 years, a subset of machine learning named deep learning (DL) has taken the world by storm. Based on neural networks, DL algorithms have […]

Starter Kit

Amazon Monitron, a Simple and Cost-Effective Service Enabling Predictive Maintenance

Today, I’m extremely happy to announce Amazon Monitron, a condition monitoring service that detects potential failures and allows user to track developing faults enabling you to implement predictive maintenance and reduce unplanned downtime. True story: A few months ago, I bought a new washing machine. As the delivery man was installing it in my basement, […]

Amazon SageMaker Continues to Lead the Way in Machine Learning and Announces up to 18% Lower Prices on GPU Instances

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been helping millions of customers build and manage their IT workloads. From startups to large enterprises to public sector, organizations of all sizes use our cloud computing services to reach unprecedented levels of security, resiliency, and scalability. Every day, they’re able to experiment, innovate, and deploy to production […]

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Automatic Language Identification

Update October 1, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove outdated S3 buckets. In 2017, we launched Amazon Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service that makes it easy for developers to add a speech-to-text capability to their applications. Since then, we added support for more languages, enabling customers globally to transcribe audio recordings in […]

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Amazon ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances

As machine learning and deep learning models become more sophisticated, hardware acceleration is increasingly required to deliver fast predictions at high throughput. Today, we’re very happy to announce that AWS customers can now use the Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), for high performance and the lowest prediction cost in […]

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Amazon Translate now supports Office documents

Whether your organization is a multinational enterprise present in many countries, or a small startup hungry for global success, translating your content to local languages may be an enduring challenge. Indeed, text data often comes in many formats, and processing them may require several different tools. Also, as all these tools may not support the […]

Object tracking

New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon Sagemaker Ground Truth is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that makes it easy to annotate machine learning datasets. Customers can efficiently and accurately label image, text and 3D point cloud data with built-in workflows, or any other type of data with custom workflows. Data samples are automatically distributed to […]

Amazon EKS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) (EKS) has quickly become a leading choice for machine learning workloads. It combines the developer agility and the scalability of Kubernetes, with the wide selection of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types available on AWS, such as the C5, P3, and G4 families. As models become more […]