AWS Machine Learning Blog

Get value from every customer touchpoint using Amazon Connect as a data gathering mechanism

The recent pandemic and the impossibility of meeting customers in person has made two-way contact centers an effective tool for sales representatives. Amazon Connect is the ideal service to manage these contacts, and its adoption gives you the opportunity to gather new business insights. Thanks to Amazon Connect, you can program outbound calls to reach […]

Manage your Amazon Fraud Detector resources in an automated and secure manner using AWS CloudFormation

Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. Unlike general-purpose machine learning (ML) packages, Amazon Fraud Detector is designed specifically to detect fraud. Amazon Fraud Detector combines your data, the latest in ML science, […]

The development of Bundesliga Match Fact Passing Profile, a deep dive into passing in football

This post was authored by Simon Rolfes. Simon played 288 Bundesliga games as a central midfielder, scored 41 goals, and won 26 caps for Germany. Currently, he serves as Sporting Director at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, where he oversees and develops the pro player roster, the scouting department, and the club’s youth development. Simon also writes […]

Boost transcription accuracy of class lectures with custom language models for Amazon Transcribe

Many universities like transcribing their recorded class lectures and later creating captions out of these transcriptions. Amazon Transcribe is a fully-managed automatic speech recognition service (ASR) that makes it easy to add speech-to-text capabilities to voice-enabled applications. Transcribe assists in increasing accessibility and improving content engagement and learning outcomes by connecting with both auditory and […]

Fully customizable action space now available on the AWS DeepRacer console

AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get rolling with machine learning (ML) through a global racing league, cloud-based 3D racing simulator, and fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning. Starting today, the model action space is fully customizable yet simplified with new dynamic graphics so developers have greater control and can […]

Announcing the Amazon S3 plugin for PyTorch

November 2023: On 11/22/2023, AWS announced the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch ─ a new connector that delivers high throughput for PyTorch training jobs that access data in Amazon S3. We recommend customers use the new connector for PyTorch training jobs that read and write data in Amazon S3. The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch […]

Define and run Machine Learning pipelines on Step Functions using Python, Workflow Studio, or States Language

May 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. You can use various tools to define and run machine learning (ML) pipelines or DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs). Some popular options include AWS Step Functions, Apache Airflow, KubeFlow Pipelines (KFP), TensorFlow Extended (TFX), Argo, Luigi, and Amazon SageMaker Pipelines. All these tools help you compose […]

Build machine learning at the edge applications using Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager and AWS IoT Greengrass V2

Running machine learning (ML) models at the edge can be a powerful enhancement for Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that must perform inference without a constant connection back to the cloud. Although there are numerous ways to train ML models for countless applications, effectively optimizing and deploying these models for IoT devices can present many […]

Schedule an Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler flow to process new data periodically using AWS Lambda functions

Data scientists can spend up to 80% of their time preparing data for machine learning (ML) projects. This preparation process is largely undifferentiated and tedious work, and can involve multiple programming APIs and custom libraries. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2020, Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for […]

How Intel Olympic Technology Group built a smart coaching SaaS application by deploying pose estimation models – Part 1

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. The Intel Olympic Technology Group (OTG), a division within Intel focused on bringing cutting-edge technology to Olympic athletes, collaborated with AWS Machine Learning Professional Services (MLPS) to build a smart coaching software […]