Reduce food waste to improve sustainability and financial results in retail with Amazon Forecast

With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives becoming more important for companies, our customer, one of Greater China region’s top convenience store chains, has been seeking a solution to reduce food waste (currently over $3.5 million USD per year). Doing so will allow them to not only realize substantial operating savings, but also support corporate … Read more

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports grid search

Today Amazon SageMaker announced the support of Grid search for automatic model tuning, providing users with an additional strategy to find the best hyperparameter configuration for your model. Amazon SageMaker automatic model tuning finds the best version of a model by running many training jobs on your dataset using a range of hyperparameters that you … Read more

Introducing the Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Benchmarking Toolkit

Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is a purpose-built inference option that makes it easy for you to deploy and scale machine learning (ML) models. It provides a pay-per-use model, which is ideal for services where endpoint invocations are infrequent and unpredictable. Unlike a real-time hosting endpoint, which is backed by a long-running instance, compute resources for … Read more

Deploy a machine learning inference data capture solution on AWS Lambda

Monitoring machine learning (ML) predictions can help improve the quality of deployed models. Capturing the data from inferences made in production can enable you to monitor your deployed models and detect deviations in model quality. Early and proactive detection of these deviations enables you to take corrective actions, such as retraining models, auditing upstream systems, … Read more

Run inference at scale for OpenFold, a PyTorch-based protein folding ML model, using Amazon EKS

This post was co-written with Sachin Kadyan, a leading developer of OpenFold. In drug discovery, understanding the 3D structure of proteins is key to assessing the ability of a drug to bind to it, directly impacting its efficacy. Predicting the 3D protein form, however, is very complex, challenging, expensive, and time consuming, and can take … Read more

Run multiple deep learning models on GPU with Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints

As AI adoption is accelerating across the industry, customers are building sophisticated models that take advantage of new scientific breakthroughs in deep learning. These next-generation models allow you to achieve state-of-the-art, human-like performance in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, speech recognition, medical research, cybersecurity, protein structure prediction, and many others. For … Read more

Reduce deep learning training time and cost with MosaicML Composer on AWS

In the past decade, we have seen Deep learning (DL) science adopted at a tremendous pace by AWS customers. The plentiful and jointly trained parameters of DL models have a large representational capacity that brought improvements in numerous customer use cases, including image and speech analysis, natural language processing (NLP), time series processing, and more. … Read more

Enable CI/CD of multi-Region Amazon SageMaker endpoints

Amazon SageMaker and SageMaker inference endpoints provide a capability of training and deploying your AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. With inference endpoints, you can deploy your models for real-time or batch inference. The endpoints support various types of ML models hosted using AWS Deep Learning Containers or your own containers with custom AI/ML algorithms. … Read more

Detect fraudulent transactions using machine learning with Amazon SageMaker

Businesses can lose billions of dollars each year due to malicious users and fraudulent transactions. As more and more business operations move online, fraud and abuses in online systems are also on the rise. To combat online fraud, many businesses have been using rule-based fraud detection systems. However, traditional fraud detection systems rely on a … Read more

Implement RStudio on your AWS environment and access your data lake using AWS Lake Formation permissions

R is a popular analytic programming language used by data scientists and analysts to perform data processing, conduct statistical analyses, create data visualizations, and build machine learning (ML) models. RStudio, the integrated development environment for R, provides open-source tools and enterprise-ready professional software for teams to develop and share their work across their organization Building, … Read more

Design patterns for serial inference on Amazon SageMaker

As machine learning (ML) goes mainstream and gains wider adoption, ML-powered applications are becoming increasingly common to solve a range of complex business problems. The solution to these complex business problems often requires using multiple ML models. These models can be sequentially combined to perform various tasks, such as preprocessing, data transformation, model selection, inference … Read more

Train a time series forecasting model faster with Amazon SageMaker Canvas Quick build

Today, Amazon SageMaker Canvas introduces the ability to use the Quick build feature with time series forecasting use cases. This allows you to train models and generate the associated explainability scores in under 20 minutes, at which point you can generate predictions on new, unseen data. Quick build training enables faster experimentation to understand how … Read more

Use Amazon SageMaker Canvas for exploratory data analysis

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a common task performed by business analysts to discover patterns, understand relationships, validate assumptions, and identify anomalies in their data. In machine learning (ML), it’s important to first understand the data and its relationships before getting into model building. Traditional ML development cycles can sometimes take months and require advanced … Read more

Run ensemble ML models on Amazon SageMaker

Model deployment in machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly complex. You want to deploy not just one ML model but large groups of ML models represented as ensemble workflows. These workflows are comprised of multiple ML models. Productionizing these ML models is challenging because you need to adhere to various performance and latency requirements. Amazon … Read more

Host code-server on Amazon SageMaker

Machine learning (ML) teams need the flexibility to choose their integrated development environment (IDE) when working on a project. It allows you to have a productive developer experience and innovate at speed. You may even use multiple IDEs within a project. Amazon SageMaker lets ML teams choose to work from fully managed, cloud-based environments within … Read more

Real estate brokerage firm John L. Scott uses Amazon Textract to strike racially restrictive language from property deeds for homeowners

Founded more than 91 years ago in Seattle, John L. Scott Real Estate’s core value is Living Life as a Contribution®. The firm helps homebuyers find and buy the home of their dreams, while also helping sellers move into the next chapter of their home ownership journey. John L. Scott currently operates over 100 offices … Read more

Run and optimize multi-model inference with Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoints

Amazon SageMaker multi-model endpoint (MME) enables you to cost-effectively deploy and host multiple models in a single endpoint and then horizontally scale the endpoint to achieve scale. As illustrated in the following figure, this is an effective technique to implement multi-tenancy of models within your machine learning (ML) infrastructure. We have seen software as a … Read more

Testing approaches for Amazon SageMaker ML models

This post was co-written with Tobias Wenzel, Software Engineering Manager for the Intuit Machine Learning Platform. We all appreciate the importance of a high-quality and reliable machine learning (ML) model when using autonomous driving or interacting with Alexa, for examples. ML models also play an important role in less obvious ways—they’re used by business applications, … Read more

Encode multi-lingual text properties in Amazon Neptune to train predictive models

Amazon Neptune ML is a machine learning (ML) capability of Amazon Neptune that helps you make accurate and fast predictions on your graph data. Under the hood, Neptune ML uses Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to simultaneously take advantage of graph structure and node/edge properties to solve the task at hand. Traditional methods either only use … Read more

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