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How Amazon Search reduced ML inference costs by 85% with AWS Inferentia

Amazon’s product search engine indexes billions of products, serves hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, and is one of the most heavily used services in the world. The Amazon Search team develops machine learning (ML) technology that powers the Amazon.com search engine and helps customers search effortlessly. To deliver a great customer experience and operate […]

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How InfoJobs (Adevinta) improves NLP model prediction performance with AWS Inferentia and Amazon SageMaker

This is a guest post co-written by Juan Francisco Fernandez, ML Engineer in Adevinta Spain, and AWS AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architects Antonio Rodriguez and João Moura. InfoJobs, a subsidiary company of the Adevinta group, provides the perfect match between candidates looking for their next job position and employers looking for the best hire for the […]

How Amazon Search achieves low-latency, high-throughput T5 inference with NVIDIA Triton on AWS

Amazon Search’s vision is to enable customers to search effortlessly. Our spelling correction helps you find what you want even if you don’t know the exact spelling of the intended words. In the past, we used classical machine learning (ML) algorithms with manual feature engineering for spelling correction. To make the next generational leap in […]

Serve 3,000 deep learning models on Amazon EKS with AWS Inferentia for under $50 an hour

October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include support for Graviton and Inf2 instances. More customers are finding the need to build larger, scalable, and more cost-effective machine learning (ML) inference pipelines in the cloud. Outside of these base prerequisites, the requirements of ML inference pipelines in production vary based on the business […]

Achieving 1.85x higher performance for deep learning based object detection with an AWS Neuron compiled YOLOv4 model on AWS Inferentia

In this post, we show you how to deploy a TensorFlow based YOLOv4 model, using Keras optimized for inference on AWS Inferentia based Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances. You will set up a benchmarking environment to evaluate throughput and precision, comparing Inf1 with comparable Amazon EC2 G4 GPU-based instances. Deploying YOLOv4 on AWS Inferentia provides the […]

AWS Inferentia is now available in 11 AWS Regions, with best-in-class performance for running object detection models at scale

AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to four new AWS Regions, bringing the total number of supported Regions to 11: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris), and South America (São Paulo). Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances are powered by AWS […]

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips now available in five new Regions and with improved performance

Following strong customer demand, AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to five new Regions: US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which Amazon custom-designed to provide you with the lowest cost per inference in the cloud and lower barriers […]

Deploying TensorFlow OpenPose on AWS Inferentia-based Inf1 instances for significant price performance improvements

In this post you will compile an open-source TensorFlow version of OpenPose using AWS Neuron and fine tune its inference performance for AWS Inferentia based instances. You will set up a benchmarking environment, measure the image processing pipeline throughput, and quantify the price-performance improvements as compared to a GPU based instance. About OpenPose Human pose […]