Amazon AI Monthly — April 2018

A recap of all things AI and Machine Learning that happened last month on AWS.

Application services

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-transcribe-is-now-generally-available/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-translate-is-now-generally-available/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-rekognition-improves-accuracy-of-real-time-face-recognition-and-verification/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-polly-increases-character-limits/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-polly-achieves-hipaa-eligibility/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/create-accessible-training-with-initiafy-and-amazon-polly/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/translate-a-chat-channel-using-amazon-translate/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-smart-chat-apps-with-amazon-machine-learning-apis-and-the-pubnub-chatengine/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-automatic-analysis-of-body-language-to-gauge-attention-and-engagement-using-amazon-kinesis-video-streams-and-amazon-ai-services/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/easily-perform-facial-analysis-on-live-feeds-by-creating-a-serverless-video-analytics-environment-with-amazon-rekognition-video-and-amazon-kinesis-video-streams/

SageMaker

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-sagemaker-has-open-sourced-tensorflow-1-6-and-apache-mxnet-1-1-docker-containers-with-support-for-local-mode-and-now-supports-more-instance-types-across-all-modules/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/random-cut-forest-algorithm-now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/access-amazon-vpc-resources-for-training-and-hosting-with-amazon-sageMaker/

Apache MXNet

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/mxnet-model-server-container-support/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/maximize-training-performance-with-gluon-data-loader-workers/
• https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.0.rc1

Infrastructure

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-deep-learning-amis-new-regions/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-deep-learning-amis-optimized-tensorflow17-ec2/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-deep-learning-amis-optimized-chainer-cntk/
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/amazon-ec2-c5-instances-are-now-available-in-seoul-and-tokyo-regions/