Train and deploy ML models in a multicloud environment using Amazon SageMaker

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their business, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a multicloud environment. For example, you might have acquired a company that was already running on a different cloud provider, or you may have a workload that generates value from … Read more

Few-click segmentation mask labeling in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus is a managed data labeling service that makes it easy to label data for machine learning (ML) applications. One common use case is semantic segmentation, which is a computer vision ML technique that involves assigning class labels to individual pixels in an image. For example, in video frames captured by … Read more

Accelerate time to insight with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler and the power of Apache Hive

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. Data Wrangler enables you to access data from a wide variety of popular sources (Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR and Snowflake) and over 40 other third-party sources. … Read more

Real-time fraud detection using AWS serverless and machine learning services

Online fraud has a widespread impact on businesses and requires an effective end-to-end strategy to detect and prevent new account fraud and account takeovers, and stop suspicious payment transactions. Detecting fraud closer to the time of fraud occurrence is key to the success of a fraud detection and prevention system. The system should be able … Read more

Architect personalized generative AI SaaS applications on Amazon SageMaker

The AI landscape is being reshaped by the rise of generative models capable of synthesizing high-quality data, such as text, images, music, and videos. The course toward democratization of AI helped to further popularize generative AI following the open-source releases for such foundation model families as BERT, T5, GPT, CLIP and, most recently, Stable Diffusion. … Read more

Use a data-centric approach to minimize the amount of data required to train Amazon SageMaker models

As machine learning (ML) models have improved, data scientists, ML engineers and researchers have shifted more of their attention to defining and bettering data quality. This has led to the emergence of a data-centric approach to ML and various techniques to improve model performance by focusing on data requirements. Applying these techniques allows ML practitioners … Read more

Use Snowflake as a data source to train ML models with Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service. With SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train ML models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. Sagemaker provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so … Read more

How Marubeni is optimizing market decisions using AWS machine learning and analytics

This post is co-authored with Hernan Figueroa, Sr. Manager Data Science at Marubeni Power International. Marubeni Power International Inc (MPII) owns and invests in power business platforms in the Americas. An important vertical for MPII is asset management for renewable energy and energy storage assets, which are critical to reduce the carbon intensity of our … Read more

Portfolio optimization through multidimensional action optimization using Amazon SageMaker RL

Reinforcement learning (RL) encompasses a class of machine learning (ML) techniques that can be used to solve sequential decision-making problems. RL techniques have found widespread applications in numerous domains, including financial services, autonomous navigation, industrial control, and e-commerce. The objective of an RL problem is to train an agent that, given an observation from its … Read more

Hosting YOLOv8 PyTorch models on Amazon SageMaker Endpoints

Deploying models at scale can be a cumbersome task for many data scientists and machine learning engineers. However, Amazon SageMaker endpoints provide a simple solution for deploying and scaling your machine learning (ML) model inferences. Our last blog post and GitHub repo on hosting a YOLOv5 TensorFlowModel on Amazon SageMaker Endpoints sparked a lot of interest … Read more

Four approaches to manage Python packages in Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks

This post presents and compares options and recommended practices on how to manage Python packages and virtual environments in Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks. A public GitHub repo provides hands-on examples for each of the presented approaches. Amazon SageMaker Studio is a web-based, integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that lets you build, train, … Read more

AI/ML-driven actionable insights and themes for Amazon third-party sellers using AWS

The Amazon International Seller Growth (ISG) team runs the CSBA (Customer Service by Amazon) program that supports over 200,000 third-party Merchant Fulfilled Network (MFN) sellers. Amazon call centers facilitate hundreds of thousands of phone calls, chats, and emails going between the consumers and Amazon MFN sellers. The large volume of contacts creates a challenge for … Read more

Announcing the Yammer connector for Amazon Kendra

Yammer is a social networking platform designed for open and dynamic communications and collaborations within organizations. It allows you to build communities of interest, gather ideas and feedback, and keep everyone informed. It’s available via browser or mobile app, and provides a variety of common social networking features such as private and public communities, news … Read more

Training large language models on Amazon SageMaker: Best practices

Language models are statistical methods predicting the succession of tokens in sequences, using natural text. Large language models (LLMs) are neural network-based language models with hundreds of millions (BERT) to over a trillion parameters (MiCS), and whose size makes single-GPU training impractical. LLMs’ generative abilities make them popular for text synthesis, summarization, machine translation, and … Read more

Index your Microsoft Exchange content using the Exchange 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

Achieve rapid time-to-value business outcomes with faster ML model training using Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Machine learning (ML) can help companies make better business decisions through advanced analytics. Companies across industries apply ML to use cases such as predicting customer churn, demand forecasting, credit scoring, predicting late shipments, and improving manufacturing quality. In this blog post, we’ll look at how Amazon SageMaker Canvas delivers faster and more accurate model training times enabling … Read more

Accelerate hyperparameter grid search for sentiment analysis with BERT models using Weights & Biases, Amazon EKS, and TorchElastic

Financial market participants are faced with an overload of information that influences their decisions, and sentiment analysis stands out as a useful tool to help separate out the relevant and meaningful facts and figures. However, the same piece of news can have a positive or negative impact on stock prices, which presents a challenge for … Read more

Search for answers accurately using Amazon Kendra S3 Connector with VPC support

Amazon Kendra is an easy-to-use intelligent search service that allows you to integrate search capabilities with your applications so users can find information stored across data sources like Amazon Simple Storage Service , OneDrive and Google Drive; applications such as SalesForce, SharePoint and Service Now; and relational databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Using … Read more

How Kakao Games automates lifetime value prediction from game data using Amazon SageMaker and AWS Glue

This post is co-written with Suhyoung Kim, General Manager at KakaoGames Data Analytics Lab. Kakao Games is a top video game publisher and developer headquartered in South Korea. It specializes in developing and publishing games on PC, mobile, and virtual reality (VR) serving globally. In order to maximize its players’ experience and improve the efficiency … Read more

Simplify continuous learning of Amazon Comprehend custom models using Comprehend flywheel

Amazon Comprehend is a managed AI service that uses natural language processing (NLP) with ready-made intelligence to extract insights about the content of documents. It develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements in a document. The ability to train custom models through the Custom classification and Custom entity … Read more

Extract non-PHI data from Amazon HealthLake, reduce complexity, and increase cost efficiency with Amazon Athena and Amazon SageMaker Canvas

In today’s highly competitive market, performing data analytics using machine learning (ML) models has become a necessity for organizations. It enables them to unlock the value of their data, identify trends, patterns, and predictions, and differentiate themselves from their competitors. For example, in the healthcare industry, ML-driven analytics can be used for diagnostic assistance and … Read more

Build a GNN-based real-time fraud detection solution using the Deep Graph Library without using external graph storage

Fraud detection is an important problem that has applications in financial services, social media, ecommerce, gaming, and other industries. This post presents an implementation of a fraud detection solution using the Relational Graph Convolutional Network (RGCN) model to predict the probability that a transaction is fraudulent through both the transductive and inductive inference modes. You … Read more

Tune ML models for additional objectives like fairness with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning

Model tuning is the experimental process of finding the optimal parameters and configurations for a machine learning (ML) model that result in the best possible desired outcome with a validation dataset. Single objective optimization with a performance metric is the most common approach for tuning ML models. However, in addition to predictive performance, there may … Read more

Accelerate disaster response with computer vision for satellite imagery using Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Augmented AI

In recent years, advances in computer vision have enabled researchers, first responders, and governments to tackle the challenging problem of processing global satellite imagery to understand our planet and our impact on it. AWS recently released Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities to provide you with satellite imagery and geospatial state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) models, reducing barriers … Read more

Achieve high performance at scale for model serving using Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints with GPU

Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints (MMEs) provide a scalable and cost-effective way to deploy a large number of machine learning (ML) models. It gives you the ability to deploy multiple ML models in a single serving container behind a single endpoint. From there, SageMaker manages loading and unloading the models and scaling resources on your behalf … Read more

Modular functions design for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) on AWS

Over the last 10 years, a number of players have developed autonomous vehicle (AV) systems using deep neural networks (DNNs). These systems have evolved from simple rule-based systems to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and fully autonomous vehicles. These systems require petabytes of data and thousands of compute units (vCPUs and GPUs) to train. This … Read more

Boomi uses BYOC on Amazon SageMaker Studio to scale custom Markov chain implementation

This post is co-written with Swagata Ashwani, Senior Data Scientist at Boomi. Boomi is an enterprise-level software as a service (SaaS) independent software vendor (ISV) that creates developer enablement tooling for software engineers. These tools integrate via API into Boomi’s core service offering. In this post, we discuss how Boomi used the bring-your-own-container (BYOC) approach … Read more