Category: Amazon Personalize

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. At a basic level, Machine Learning (ML) technology learns from data to make predictions. Businesses use their data with an ML-powered personalization service to elevate their customer experience. This approach allows businesses […]

Generative artificial intelligence is transforming how enterprises do business. Organizations are using AI to improve data-driven decisions, enhance omnichannel experiences, and drive next-generation product development. Enterprises are using generative AI specifically to power their marketing efforts through emails, push notifications, and other outbound communication channels. Gartner predicts that “by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages […]

Amazon Personalize has launched a new integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service that enables you to personalize search results for each user and assists in predicting their search needs. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within OpenSearch Service allows you to improve the end-user engagement and conversion from your website and app search by taking advantage […]

A recommendation engine is only as good as the data used to prepare it. Transforming raw data into a format that is suitable for a model is key to getting better personalized recommendations for end-users. In this post, we walk through how to prepare and import the MovieLens dataset, a dataset prepared by GroupLens research […]

Organizations are continuously investing time and effort in developing intelligent recommendation solutions to serve customized and relevant content to their users. The goals can be many: transform the user experience, generate meaningful interaction, and drive content consumption. Some of these solutions use common machine learning (ML) models built on historical interaction patterns, user demographic attributes, […]

Amazon Personalize now enables popularity tuning for its Similar-Items recipe (aws-similar-items). Similar-Items generates recommendations that are similar to the item that a user selects, helping users discover new items in your catalog based on the previous behavior of all users and item metadata. Previously, this capability was only available for SIMS, the other Related_Items recipe […]

This post was co-written with Dave Gowel, CEO of RallyPoint. In his own words, “RallyPoint is an online social and professional network for veterans, service members, family members, caregivers, and other civilian supporters of the US armed forces. With two million members on the platform, the company provides a comfortable place for this deserving population […]

Amazon Personalize is excited to announce the new Trending-Now recipe to help you recommend items gaining popularity at the fastest pace among your users. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy for developers to deliver personalized experiences to their users. It enables you to improve customer engagement by […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now lets you measure how your personalized recommendations can help you achieve your business goals. After specifying the metrics that you want to track, you can identify which campaigns and recommenders are most impactful and understand the impact of recommendations on your business metrics. All customers want to […]

This post is co-written by Hesham Fahim from Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters (TR) is one of the world’s most trusted information organizations for businesses and professionals. It provides companies with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers, enabling them to make better decisions more quickly. TR’s customers span across the […]