Artificial Intelligence

Category: Amazon Machine Learning

Automatically extract text and structured data from documents with Amazon Textract

July 2025: Post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Documents are a primary tool for record keeping, communication, collaboration, and transactions across many industries, including financial, medical, legal, and real estate. The millions of mortgage applications and hundreds of millions of W2 tax forms processed each year are just a few examples of such documents. […]

Powering a search engine with Amazon SageMaker

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This is a guest post by Evan Harris, Manager of Machine Learning at Ibotta. In their own words, “Ibotta is transforming the shopping experience by making it easy for consumers to earn cash back on everyday purchases through a single […]

Racing tips from AWS DeepRacer League winners in Stockholm, and AWS DeepRacer TV!

The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first global autonomous racing league. There are races at 21 AWS Summits globally and select Amazon events, as well as monthly virtual races happening online and open for racing. No matter where you are in the world or your skill level, you can join the league. Get a […]

The AWS DeepRacer League virtual circuit is underway—win a trip to re:Invent 2019!

The competition is heating up in the AWS DeepRacer League, the world’s first global autonomous racing league, open to anyone. The first round is almost halfway home, now that 9 of the 21 stops on the summit circuit schedule are complete. Developers continue to build new machine learning skills and post winning times to the […]

More ways to compete and win in the AWS DeepRacer League and two new champions!

It’s been a busy week for the AWS DeepRacer League. The world’s first global autonomous racing league allows machine learning developers of all skill levels to get hands-on with machine learning in a fun and exciting way. On April 29 2019, the virtual circuit of the AWS DeepRacer League opened. The virtual circuit allows racers […]

The AWS DeepRacer League triple – Three countries, three races and three new champions!

The AWS DeepRacer League is the first of its kind global autonomous racing league, providing developers of all skill levels with the opportunity to get hands-on with machine learning and have fun doing it. In another first for the AWS DeepRacer League, the race went truly global on April 17, 2019 as three live racing […]

Developer at the AWS DeepRacer League Singapore race sets new world record lap time

The AWS DeepRacer League, the world’s first autonomous racing league open to developers of all skill levels held a race in Singapore this week (April 10-11). This was the third of twenty races on the worldwide Summit Circuit.  Following the first two races in Santa Clara, California and Paris, France, excitement was building to see […]

Announcing the first winner of the AWS DeepRacer League Summit circuit!

Today, at the AWS Summit in Santa Clara, California, we kicked off the 2019 season of the world’s first global autonomous racing league. The AWS DeepRacer League allows developers of all skill levels to get hands on with machine learning through a series of live racing events at AWS Global Summits around the world. The […]

Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

Today, I’m excited to share that, for the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company, there are very […]

Your Guide to AI and Machine Learning at re:Invent 2018

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. re:Invent 2018 is almost here! As you plan your agenda, artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly a hot topic on your list. This year we have a lot of great technical content on AI, machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL)—with […]