Build a solution for a computer vision skin lesion classifier using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service designed for machine learning (ML) use cases. You can use it to create, automate, and manage end-to-end ML workflows. It tackles the challenge of orchestrating each step of an ML process, which requires time, effort, and resources. To facilitate its use, multiple templates … Read more

How Amazon Search runs large-scale, resilient machine learning projects with Amazon SageMaker

If you have searched for an item to buy on amazon.com, you have used Amazon Search services. At Amazon Search, we’re responsible for the search and discovery experience for our customers worldwide. In the background, we index our worldwide catalog of products, deploy highly scalable AWS fleets, and use advanced machine learning (ML) to match … Read more

Customize business rules for intelligent document processing with human review and BI visualization

A massive amount of business documents are processed daily across industries. Many of these documents are paper-based, scanned into your system as images, or in an unstructured format like PDF. Each company may apply unique rules associated with its business background while processing these documents. How to extract information accurately and process them flexibly is … Read more

Automate classification of IT service requests with an Amazon Comprehend custom classifier

Enterprises often deal with large volumes of IT service requests. Traditionally, the burden is put on the requester to choose the correct category for every issue. A manual error or misclassification of a ticket usually means a delay in resolving the IT service request. This can result in reduced productivity, a decrease in customer satisfaction, … Read more

Detect fraud in mobile-oriented businesses using GrabDefence device intelligence and Amazon Fraud Detector

In this post, we present a solution that combines rich mobile device intelligence with customized machine learning (ML) modeling to help you catch fraudsters who exploit mobile apps. GrabDefence (GD), Grab’s proprietary fraud detection and prevention technology, and AWS have launched GDxAFD, a fraud detection solution tailored for mobile apps that integrates GD’s device intelligence … Read more

How Synamedia uses Amazon Rekognition Video to build advanced video search capabilities for long-form video

Synamedia is a leading video technology provider addressing the needs for premium video service providers and direct-to-consumer (D2C) with a comprehensive solution portfolio. Synamedia solutions spread across several pillars such as video networks, TV platforms, advertisement and monetization, and content protection and piracy disruption. Synamedia partnered with AWS to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop … Read more

Increase ML model performance and reduce training time using Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms with pre-trained models

Model training forms the core of any machine learning (ML) project, and having a trained ML model is essential to adding intelligence to a modern application. A performant model is the output of a rigorous and diligent data science methodology. Not implementing a proper model training process can lead to high infrastructure and personnel costs … Read more

InformedIQ automates verifications for Origence’s auto lending using machine learning

This post was co-written with Robert Berger and Adine Deford from InformedIQ. InformedIQ is the leader in AI-based software used by the nation’s largest financial institutions to automate loan processing verifications and consumer credit applications in real time per the lenders’ policies. They improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost, and increase accuracy by decreasing human error … Read more

Prevent account takeover at login with the new Account Takeover Insights model in Amazon Fraud Detector

Digital is the new normal, and there’s no going back. Every year, consumers visit, on average, 191 websites or services requiring a user name and password, and the digital footprint is expected to grow exponentially. So much exposure naturally brings added risks like account takeover (ATO). Each year, bad actors compromise billions of accounts through … Read more

Metrics for evaluating content moderation in Amazon Rekognition and other content moderation services

Content moderation is the process of screening and monitoring user-generated content online. To provide a safe environment for both users and brands, platforms must moderate content to ensure that it falls within preestablished guidelines of acceptable behavior that are specific to the platform and its audience. When a platform moderates content, acceptable user-generated content (UGC) … Read more

Face-off Probability, part of NHL Edge IQ: Predicting face-off winners in real time during televised games

Face-off Probability is the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first advanced statistic using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence. It uses real-time Player and Puck Tracking (PPT) data to show viewers which player is likely to win a face-off before the puck is dropped, and provides broadcasters and viewers the opportunity to dive deeper into the … Read more

Redact sensitive data from streaming data in near-real time using Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

Near-real-time delivery of data and insights enable businesses to rapidly respond to their customers’ needs. Real-time data can come from a variety of sources, including social media, IoT devices, infrastructure monitoring, call center monitoring, and more. Due to the breadth and depth of data being ingested from multiple sources, businesses look for solutions to protect … Read more

Reduce cost and development time with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines local mode

Creating robust and reusable machine learning (ML) pipelines can be a complex and time-consuming process. Developers usually test their processing and training scripts locally, but the pipelines themselves are typically tested in the cloud. Creating and running a full pipeline during experimentation adds unwanted overhead and cost to the development lifecycle. In this post, we … Read more

Create high-quality data for ML models with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Machine learning (ML) has improved business across industries in recent years—from the recommendation system on your Prime Video account, to document summarization and efficient search with Alexa’s voice assistance. However, the question remains of how to incorporate this technology into your business. Unlike traditional rule-based methods, ML automatically infers patterns from data so as to … Read more

Automate your time series forecasting in Snowflake using Amazon Forecast

This post is a joint collaboration with Andries Engelbrecht and James Sun of Snowflake, Inc. The cloud computing revolution has enabled businesses to capture and retain corporate and organizational data without capacity planning or data retention constraints. Now, with diverse and vast reserves of longitudinal data, companies are increasingly able to find novel and impactful … Read more

Achieve four times higher ML inference throughput at three times lower cost per inference with Amazon EC2 G5 instances for NLP and CV PyTorch models

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances are the first and only instances in the cloud to feature NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs, which you can use for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning (ML) use cases. With G5 instances, ML customers get high performance and a cost-efficient infrastructure to train and … Read more

AWS Panorama now supports NVIDIA JetPack SDK 4.6.2

AWS Panorama is a collection of machine learning (ML) devices and a software development kit (SDK) that brings computer vision to on-premises internet protocol (IP) cameras. AWS Panorama device options include the AWS Panorama Appliance and the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70, powered by AWS Panorama. These device options provide you choices in price and performance, depending … Read more

Build flexible and scalable distributed training architectures using Kubeflow on AWS and Amazon SageMaker

In this post, we demonstrate how Kubeflow on AWS (an AWS-specific distribution of Kubeflow) used with AWS Deep Learning Containers and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) simplifies collaboration and provides flexibility in training deep learning models at scale on both Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon SageMaker utilizing a hybrid architecture approach. … Read more

Bundesliga Match Fact Pressure Handling: Evaluating players’ performances in high-pressure situations on AWS

Pressing or pressure in football is a process in which a team seeks to apply stress to the opponent player who possesses the ball. A team applies pressure to limit the time an opposition player has left to make a decision, reduce passing options, and ultimately attempt to turn over ball possession. Although nearly all … Read more

Bundesliga Match Fact Win Probability: Quantifying the effect of in-game events on winning chances using machine learning on AWS

Ten years from now, the technological fitness of clubs will be a key contributor towards their success. Today we’re already witnessing the potential of technology to revolutionize the understanding of football. xGoals quantifies and allows comparison of goal scoring potential of any shooting situation, while xThreat and EPV models predict the value of any in-game … Read more

Unified data preparation, model training, and deployment with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler and Amazon SageMaker Autopilot – Part 2

Depending on the quality and complexity of data, data scientists spend between 45–80% of their time on data preparation tasks. This implies that data preparation and cleansing take valuable time away from real data science work. After a machine learning (ML) model is trained with prepared data and readied for deployment, data scientists must often … Read more

How Sophos trains a powerful, lightweight PDF malware detector at ultra scale with Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-authored by Salma Taoufiq and Harini Kannan from Sophos. As a leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos strives to protect more than 500,000 organizations and millions of customers across over 150 countries against evolving threats. Powered by threat intelligence, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence from Sophos X-Ops, Sophos delivers a broad and … Read more

Build an AI-powered virtual agent for Genesys Cloud using QnABot and Amazon Lex

The rise of artificial intelligence technologies enables organizations to adopt and improve self-service capabilities in contact center operations to create a more proactive, timely, and effective customer experience. Voice bots, or conversational interactive voice response systems (IVR), use natural language processing (NLP) to understand customers’ questions and provide relevant answers. Businesses can automate responses to … Read more

Set up enterprise-level cost allocation for ML environments and workloads using resource tagging in Amazon SageMaker

As businesses and IT leaders look to accelerate the adoption of machine learning (ML), there is a growing need to understand spend and cost allocation for your ML environment to meet enterprise requirements. Without proper cost management and governance, your ML spend may lead to surprises in your monthly AWS bill. Amazon SageMaker is a … Read more

Index your Dropbox content using the Dropbox connector for Amazon Kendra

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and simple-to-use intelligent search service powered by machine learning (ML). Amazon Kendra offers a suite of data source connectors to simplify the process of ingesting and indexing your content, wherever it resides. Valuable data in organizations is stored in both structured and unstructured repositories. An enterprise search solution should … Read more

Provision and manage ML environments with Amazon SageMaker Canvas using AWS CDK and AWS Service Catalog

The proliferation of machine learning (ML) across a wide range of use cases is becoming prevalent in every industry. However, this outpaces the increase in the number of ML practitioners who have traditionally been responsible for implementing these technical solutions to realize business outcomes. In today’s enterprise, there is a need for machine learning to … Read more

New features for Amazon SageMaker Pipelines and the Amazon SageMaker SDK

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines allows data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to automate training workflows, which helps you create a repeatable process to orchestrate model development steps for rapid experimentation and model retraining. You can automate the entire model build workflow, including data preparation, feature engineering, model training, model tuning, and model validation, and catalog … Read more

Reduce the time taken to deploy your models to Amazon SageMaker for testing

Data scientists often train their models locally and look for a proper hosting service to deploy their models. Unfortunately, there’s no one set mechanism or guide to deploying pre-trained models to the cloud. In this post, we look at deploying trained models to Amazon SageMaker hosting to reduce your deployment time. SageMaker is a fully … Read more

Introducing self-service quota management and higher default service quotas for Amazon Textract

Today, we’re excited to announce self-service quota management support for Amazon Textract via the AWS Service Quotas console, and higher default service quotas in select AWS Regions. Customers tell us they need quick turnaround times to process their requests for quota increases and visibility into their service quotas so they may continue to scale their … Read more