AWS Machine Learning Blog

Building an end-to-end intelligent document processing solution using AWS

July 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The AWS CloudFormation template was updated. As organizations grow larger in size, so does the need for having better document processing. In industries such as healthcare, legal, insurance, and banking, the continuous influx of paper-based or PDF documents (like invoices, health charts, and insurance claims) […]

Creating a multi-department enterprise search using custom attributes in Amazon Kendra

An enterprise typically houses multiple departments such as engineering, finance, legal, and marketing, creating a growing number of documents and content that employees need to access. Creating a search experience that intuitively delivers the right information according to an employee’s role, and the department is critical to driving productivity and ensuring security. Amazon Kendra is a […]

Getting started with AWS DeepRacer community races

AWS DeepRacer allows you to get hands-on with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator on the AWS DeepRacer console, a global racing league, and hundreds of customer-initiated community races. With AWS DeepRacer community races, you can create your own race and invite […]

Onboarding Amazon SageMaker Studio with AWS SSO and Okta Universal Directory

This blog was reviewed and updated June, 2022 to address latest changes to steps and User Interface on Studio and Okta. In 2019, AWS announced Amazon SageMaker Studio, a unified integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) development. You can write code, track experiments, visualize data, and perform debugging and monitoring within a single, […]

Halloween-themed AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Challenge: Track or Treat

We are back with a spooktacular AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, Track or Treat! In this challenge, you can interactively collaborate with the ghost in the machine (learning) and compose spooky music! Chartbusters is a global monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions on the console using machine learning techniques, compete […]

Running on-demand, serverless Apache Spark data processing jobs using Amazon SageMaker managed Spark containers and the Amazon SageMaker SDK

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large scale, distributed data processing. Typically, businesses with Spark-based workloads on AWS use their own stack built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or Amazon EMR to run and scale Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other […]

This month in AWS Machine Learning: September 2020 edition

Every day there is something new going on in the world of AWS Machine Learning—from launches to new use cases to interactive trainings. We’re packaging some of the not-to-miss information from the ML Blog and beyond for easy perusing each month. Check back at the end of each month for the latest roundup. Launches This […]

Using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels and Amazon A2I for detecting pizza slices and augmenting predictions

Customers need machine learning (ML) models to detect objects that are interesting for their business. In most cases doing so is hard as these models need thousands of labeled images and deep learning expertise.  Generating this data can take months to gather, and can require large teams of labelers to prepare it for use. In […]

Building custom language models to supercharge speech-to-text performance for Amazon Transcribe

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. As our service grows, so does the diversity of our customer base, which now spans domains such as insurance, finance, law, real estate, media, hospitality, and more. Naturally, customers in different market segments have […]

AWS Inferentia is now available in 11 AWS Regions, with best-in-class performance for running object detection models at scale

AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to four new AWS Regions, bringing the total number of supported Regions to 11: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris), and South America (São Paulo). Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances are powered by AWS […]