AWS Machine Learning Blog

This month in AWS Machine Learning: October edition

Every day there is something new going on in the world of AWS Machine Learning—from launches to new to use cases to interactive trainings. We’re packaging some of the not-to-miss information from the ML Blog and beyond for easy perusing each month. Check back at the end of each month for the latest roundup. Launches […]

Introducing the COVID-19 Simulator and Machine Learning Toolkit for Predicting COVID-19 Spread

There have been breakthroughs in understanding COVID-19, such as how soon an exposed person will develop symptoms and how many people on average will contract the disease after contact with an exposed individual. The wider research community is actively working on accurately predicting the percent population who are exposed, recovered, or have built immunity. Researchers […]

Building a real-time conversational analytics platform for Amazon Lex bots

Conversational interfaces like chatbots have become an important channel for brands to communicate with their customers, partners, and employees. They offer faster service, 24/7 availability, and lower service costs. By analyzing your bot’s customer conversations, you can discover challenges in user experience, trending topics, and missed utterances. These additional insights can help you identify how […]

Configuring your Amazon Kendra Confluence Server connector

Many builders and teams on AWS use Confluence as a way of collaborating and sharing information within their teams and across their organizations. These types of workspaces are rich with data and contain sets of knowledge and information that can be a great source of truth to answer organizational questions. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy […]

Optimizing costs for machine learning with Amazon SageMaker

Applications based on machine learning (ML) can provide tremendous business value. Using ML, we can solve some of the most complex engineering problems that previously were infeasible. One of the advantages of running ML on the AWS Cloud is that you can continually optimize your workloads and reduce your costs. In this post, we discuss […]

zomato digitizes menus using Amazon Textract and Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-written by Chiranjeev Ghai, ML Engineer at zomato. zomato is a global food-tech company based in India. Are you the kind of person who has very specific cravings? Maybe when the mood hits, you don’t want just any kind of Indian food—you want Chicken Chettinad with a side of paratha, and nothing […]

Video streaming and deep learning: Using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with Deep Java Library

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams allows you to easily ingest video data from connected devices for processing. One of the most effective ways to process this video data is using the power of deep learning. You can create an efficient service infrastructure to run these computations with a Java server, but Java support for deep learning […]

Bringing real-time machine learning-powered insights to rugby using Amazon SageMaker

The Guinness Six Nations Championship began in 1883 as the Home Nations Championship among England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, with the inclusion of France in 1910 and Italy in 2000. It is among the oldest surviving rugby traditions and one of the best-attended sporting events in the world. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted the end of […]

Building an NLU-powered search application with Amazon SageMaker and the Amazon OpenSearch Service KNN feature

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This post has also been updated with changes required for SageMaker SDK v2 and an improved notebook experience. The rise of semantic search engines has made ecommerce and retail businesses search easier for its consumers. Search engines powered by natural […]

Arcanum makes Hungarian heritage accessible with Amazon Rekognition

Arcanum specializes in digitizing Hungarian language content, including newspapers, books, maps, and art. With over 30 years of experience, Arcanum serves more than 30,000 global subscribers with access to Hungarian culture, history, and heritage. Amazon Rekognition Solutions Architects worked with Arcanum to add highly scalable image analysis to Arcanum Digitheca, a free service provided by […]