AWS Machine Learning Blog

Enable conversational chatbots for telephony using Amazon Lex and the Amazon Chime SDK

Conversational AI can deliver powerful, automated, interactive experiences through voice and text. Amazon Lex is a service that combines automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies, so you can build these sophisticated conversational experiences. A common application of conversational AI is found in contact centers: self-service virtual agents. We’re excited to announce that you […]

Build a traceable, custom, multi-format document parsing pipeline with Amazon Textract

Organizational forms serve as a primary business tool across industries—from financial services, to healthcare, and more. Consider, for example, tax filing forms in the tax management industry, where new forms come out each year with largely the same information. AWS customers across sectors need to process and store information in forms as part of their […]

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models and algorithms now available via API

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In December 2020, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). JumpStart provides one-click fine-tuning and deployment of a wide variety of pre-trained models across popular ML tasks, as […]

Unravel the knowledge in Slack workspaces with intelligent search using the Amazon Kendra Slack connector

Organizations use messaging platforms like Slack to bring the right people together to securely communicate with each other and collaborate to get work done. A Slack workspace captures invaluable organizational knowledge in the form of the information that flows through it as the users collaborate. However, making this knowledge easily and securely available to users […]

Securely search unstructured data on Windows file systems with the Amazon Kendra connector for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Critical information can be scattered across multiple data sources in your organization, including sources such as Windows file systems stored on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. You can now use the Amazon Kendra connector for FSx for Windows File Server to index documents (HTML, PDF, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and plain text) stored in […]

Automate email responses using Amazon Comprehend custom classification and entity detection

In this post, we demonstrate how to create an automated email response solution using Amazon Comprehend. Organizations spend lots of resources, effort, and money on running their customer care operations to answer customer questions and provide solutions. Your customers may ask questions via various channels, such as email, chat, or phone, and deploying a workforce […]

Computer vision using synthetic datasets with Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels and Dassault Systèmes 3DEXCITE

This is a post co-written with Bernard Paques, CTO of Storm Reply, and Karl Herkt, Senior Strategist at Dassault Systèmes 3DExcite. While computer vision can be crucial to industrial maintenance, manufacturing, logistics, and consumer applications, its adoption is limited by the manual creation of training datasets. The creation of labeled pictures in an industrial context […]

Secure Amazon S3 access for isolated Amazon SageMaker notebook instances

In this post, we will demonstrate how to securely launch notebook instances in a private subnet of an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), with internet access disabled, and to securely connect to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using VPC endpoints. This post is for network and security architects that support decentralized data science […]

Build, Share, Deploy: how business analysts and data scientists achieve faster time-to-market using no-code ML and Amazon SageMaker Canvas

April 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with Amazon SageMaker Canvas’s new features and UI changes. Machine learning (ML) helps organizations increase revenue, drive business growth, and reduce cost by optimizing core business functions across multiple verticals, such as demand forecasting, credit scoring, pricing, predicting customer churn, identifying next best offers, predicting late shipments, […]

Enhance your SaaS offering with a data science workbench powered by Amazon SageMaker Studio

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Many software as a service (SaaS) providers across various industries are adding machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to their SaaS offerings to address use cases like personalized product recommendation, fraud detection, and accurate demand protection. Some SaaS providers want to build such […]