Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally: more people die each year from CVDs than from any other cause. The COVID-19 pandemic made organizations change healthcare delivery to reduce staff contact with sick people and the overall pressure on the healthcare system. This technology enables organizations to deliver telehealth solutions, which … Read more
Amazon Rekognition is a computer vision service that makes it simple to add image and video analysis to your applications using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology that does not require machine learning (ML) expertise. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos and detect inappropriate content. … Read more
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time-series forecasts. Recently, based on Amazon Forecast, we helped one of our retail customers achieve accurate demand forecasting, within 8 weeks. The solution improved the manual forecast by an average of 10% in regards to the … Read more
Enterprises often need to communicate effectively to a large base of customers, partners, and stakeholders across several different languages. They need to translate and localize content such as marketing materials, product content assets, operational manuals, and legal documents. Each business unit in the enterprise has different translation workloads and often manages their own translation requirements … Read more
This is a guest blog post co-written with Minghui Yu and Jianzhe Xiao from Bytedance. ByteDance is a technology company that operates a range of content platforms to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Users trust and enjoy our content platforms because of the rich, intuitive, and safe experiences they … Read more
Companies that sell products or services online need to constantly monitor customer reviews left on their website after purchasing a product. The company’s marketing and customer service departments analyze these reviews to understand customer sentiment. For example, marketing could use this data to create campaigns targeting different customer segments. Customer service departments could use this … Read more
Amazon Rekognition offers pre-trained and customizable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from images and videos. One such capability is Amazon Rekognition Labels, which detects objects, scenes, actions, and concepts in images. Customers such as Synchronoss, Shutterstock, and Nomad Media use Amazon Rekognition Labels to automatically add metadata to their content library and … Read more
Now with Amazon Forecast, you can generate up to 45% more accurate forecasts for products with no historical data. Forecast is a managed service that uses machine learning (ML) to generate accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any ML experience. Accurate forecasting is the foundation for inventory optimization, logistics planning, and workforce management and it enables … Read more
Organizations across industries such as retail, banking, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and lending often have to deal with vast amounts of unstructured text documents coming from various sources, such as news, blogs, product reviews, customer support channels, and social media. These documents contain critical information that’s key to making important business decisions. As an organization grows, … Read more
AutoGluon-TimeSeries is the latest addition to AutoGluon, which helps you easily build powerful time series forecasting models with as little as three lines of code. Time series forecasting is a common task in a wide array of industries as well as scientific domains. Having access to reliable forecasts for supply, demand, or capacity is crucial … Read more
AWS re:Invent season is upon us again! Just a few days to go until re:Invent takes place for the 11th year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team at AWS has been working hard to offer amazing content, an outstanding AWS DeepRacer experience, and much more. In this post, we give … Read more
Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model with 20 billion parameters (AlexaTM 20B) through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, SageMaker’s machine learning hub. AlexaTM 20B is a multilingual large-scale sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) language model developed by Amazon. You can use AlexaTM 20B for a wide range of industry use-cases, from summarizing financial reports … Read more
Yara is the world’s leading crop nutrition company and a provider of environmental and agricultural solutions. Yara’s ambition is focused on growing a nature-positive food future that creates value for customers, shareholders, and society at large, and delivers a more sustainable food value chain. Supporting our vision of a world without hunger and a planet … Read more
Image classification is a computer vision-based machine learning (ML) technique that allows you to classify images. Some well-known examples of image classification include classifying handwritten digits, medical image classification, and facial recognition. Image classification is a useful technique with several business applications, but building a good image classification model isn’t trivial. Several considerations can play … Read more
Organizations are using machine learning (ML) and AI services to enhance customer experience, reduce operational cost, and unlock new possibilities to improve business outcomes. Data underpins ML and AI use cases and is a strategic asset to an organization. As data is growing at an exponential rate, organizations are looking to set up an integrated, … Read more
A well-designed CI/CD pipeline is essential to scale any software development workflow effectively. When designing production CI/CD pipelines, AWS recommends leveraging multiple accounts to isolate resources, contain security threats and simplify billing-and data science pipelines are no different. At AWS, we’re continuing to innovate to simplify the MLOps workflow. In this post, we discuss some … Read more
Today, many AWS customers are building enterprise-ready machine learning (ML) platforms on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) using Kubeflow on AWS (an AWS-specific distribution of Kubeflow) across many use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, speech translation, and financial modeling. With the latest release of open-source Kubeflow v1.6.1, the Kubeflow community continues to … Read more
According to an article by Cybersecurity Ventures, the damage caused by Ransomware (a type of malware that can block users from accessing their data unless they pay a ransom) increased by 57 times in 2021 as compared to 2015. Furthermore, it’s predicted to cost its victims $265 billion (USD) annually by 2031. At the time … Read more
Data is transforming every field and every business. However, with data growing faster than most companies can keep track of, collecting data and getting value out of that data is a challenging thing to do. A modern data strategy can help you create better business outcomes with data. AWS provides the most complete set of … Read more
In machine learning (ML), data quality has direct impact on model quality. This is why data scientists and data engineers spend significant amount of time perfecting training datasets. Nevertheless, no dataset is perfect—there are trade-offs to the preprocessing techniques such as oversampling, normalization, and imputation. Also, mistakes and errors could creep in at various stages … Read more
At AWS, we have been investing in healthcare since Day 1 with customers including Moderna, Rush University Medical Center, and the NHS who have built breakthrough innovations in the cloud. From developing public health analytics hubs, to improving health equity and patient outcomes, to developing a COVID-19 vaccine in just 65 days, our customers are utilizing … Read more
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler helps you understand, aggregate, transform, and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from a single visual interface. It contains over 300 built-in data transformations so you can quickly normalize, transform, and combine features without having to write any code. Data science practitioners generate, observe, and process data to solve business problems … Read more
Today, we are launching Amazon SageMaker inference on AWS Graviton to enable you to take advantage of the price, performance, and efficiency benefits that come from Graviton chips. Graviton-based instances are available for model inference in SageMaker. This post helps you migrate and deploy a machine learning (ML) inference workload from x86 to Graviton-based instances … Read more
To make machine learning (ML) more accessible, Amazon launched Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab at AWS re:Invent 2021. Today, tens of thousands of customers use it every day to learn and experiment with ML for free. We made it simple to get started with just an email address, without the need for installs, setups, credit cards, … Read more
This post was co-authored by Arun Gupta, the Director of Business Intelligence at Prodege, LLC. Prodege is a data-driven marketing and consumer insights platform comprised of consumer brands—Swagbucks, MyPoints, Tada, ySense, InboxDollars, InboxPounds, DailyRewards, PollFish, and Upromise—along with a complementary suite of business solutions for marketers and researchers. Prodege has 120 million users and has … Read more
Business analysts work with data and like to analyze, explore, and understand data to achieve effective business outcomes. To address business problems, they often rely on machine learning (ML) practitioners such as data scientists to assist with techniques such as utilizing ML to build models using existing data and generate predictions. However, it isn’t always … Read more
Medical imaging is an important tool for the diagnosis and localization of disease. Over the past decade, collections of medical images have grown rapidly, and open repositories such as The Cancer Imaging Archive and Imaging Data Commons have democratized access to this vast imaging data. Computational tools such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence … Read more
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service for data science and machine learning (ML) workflows. It helps data scientists and developers prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality ML models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML. In 2021, AWS announced the integration of NVIDIA Triton Inference Server in SageMaker. You … Read more
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides developers and data scientists the ability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. With SageMaker, you can deploy your ML models on hosted endpoints and get inference results in real time. You can easily view the performance metrics for your endpoints in Amazon … Read more
The COVID-19 global pandemic has accelerated the need to verify and onboard users online across several industries, such as financial services, insurance, and healthcare. When it comes to user experience it is crucial to provide a frictionless transaction while maintaining a high standard for identity verification. The question is, how do you verify real people … Read more