AWS Machine Learning Blog

When companies deal with data that comes from various sources or the collection of this data has changed over time, the data often becomes difficult to organize. Perhaps you have product category names that are similar but don’t match, and on your website you want to surface these products as a group. Therefore, you need […]

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at any scale. Typically, you can use the pre-built and optimized training and inference containers that have been optimized for AWS hardware. Although those containers cover many deep learning workloads, you may have […]

As you plan your new Amazon Lex application, the following conversation design best practices can help your team succeed in creating a great customer experience. In our previous post, we discussed how to create the foundation for good conversation design. We explored the business value of good conversational design and provided some tips on building a team. We also talked about the importance of identifying use cases to create an informed foundation for your conversational interfaces. Throughout our series, we emphasize the importance of keeping the customer at the focus of your design process—this will improve the customer experience.

New trends are shaping the credit card industry as shopping habits have rapidly evolved over the last 18 months. The pandemic has accelerated the move away from cash towards cards. Card issuers are transforming their products to better serve cardmembers through innovations such as contactless payments and mobile wallet. The rapid change in consumer behavior […]

Fraud teams need a secure, fast, and flexible transaction fraud detection solution to combat global fraudsters. Unlike many solutions on the market, Amazon Fraud Detector allows you to tailor your fraud detection efforts specifically to your data and business challenge while also bringing the latest in fraud detection machine learning (ML) technology to bear on […]

The ability to predict that a particular customer is at a high risk of churning, while there is still time to do something about it, represents a huge potential revenue source for every online business. Depending on the industry and business objective, the problem statement can be multi-layered. The following are some business objectives based […]

In Part 1 of this series, we showed how to build a brand detection solution using Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels. The solution was built on a serverless architecture with a custom user interface to identify a company brand or logo from video content and get an in-depth view of screen […]

From application forms, to identity documents, recent utility bills, and bank statements, many business processes today still rely on exchanging and analyzing human-readable documents—particularly in industries like financial services and law. In this post, we show how you can use Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end platform for machine learning (ML), to automate especially challenging document analysis […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated August, 2022 with a generator-based approach for video payloads of longer duration. AWS customers are increasingly using computer vision (CV) models on large input payloads that can take a few minutes of processing time. For example, space technology companies work with a stream of high-resolution satellite imagery […]

According to a recent study, defective products cost industries over $2 billion from 2012–2017. Defect detection within manufacturing is an important business use case, especially in high-value product industries like the automotive industry. This allows for early diagnosis of anomalies to improve production line efficacy and product quality, and saves capital costs. Although advanced anomaly […]