Pre:Invent 2019 — Time to catch up!
AWS re:Invent is almost upon us, so here’s your last chance to catch up with recent AI and Machine Learning launches. Once the waves of new announcements start rolling down, it will be too late ;)
So here goes: this is everything you may have missed since mid-October 2019.
Happy to answer questions here or on Twitter.
Applied ML
Use ML models in Amazon Quicksight.
Posted On: You can now preview Amazon QuickSight's integration with Amazon SageMaker: a new feature that makes it…aws.amazon.com
Use ML models in Amazon Aurora.
Machine Learning allows you to get better insights from your data. But where is most of the structured data stored? In…aws.amazon.com
AI Services
Amazon Comprehend: Natural Language Processing
Real-time custom classification is now supported (documentation).
Creating a custom model is simple. You provide examples of text for each of the labels you want to use, and Comprehend…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Forecast: Forecasting
You can now use any quantile, not just p10 / p50/ p90.
This can be limiting on two fronts 1. The fixed quantiles might not meet specific use case requirements e.g. If meeting…aws.amazon.com
Increasing visibility into AutoML jobs.
Posted On: Until today, when using AutoML in Forecast customers could only determine the winning algorithm. Although…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Lex: Chatbots
Sentiment analysis is available (documentation).
Posted On: Amazon Lex now supports sentiment analysis by natively integrating with Amazon Comprehend. Up until now, you…aws.amazon.com
Lex complies with SOC 1/2/3.
Posted On: You can now use Amazon Lex for use cases that are subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance…aws.amazon.com
Web and mobile chat integration is supported in Amazon Connect (documentation).
When we started Amazon in 1995, it was with the mission to be the earth's most customer-centric company. It obviously…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Personalize: Personalization and Recommendation
Batch mode predictions are now supported (documentation).
Today, we're very happy to announce that now supports batch recommendations. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, is a…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Polly: Text To Speech
A new ‘conversational’ style has been released for Neural TTS.
Posted On: Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, and today we are excited to announce the…aws.amazon.com
Two new voices are supported with Neural TTS: US Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (documentation).
Posted On: Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Following the July 30th launch of 8 US…aws.amazon.com
We released a Wordpress plugin, with Amazon Cloudfront integration.
Amazon CloudFront, AWS's content delivery network, accelerates the performance of your website by using a global…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Rekognition: Image And Video Analysis
You can now train models on custom labels (feature will be available on December 3rd).
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition that…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Translate: Neural Translation
22 new languages and 6 new regions (documentation).
Just a few weeks ago, I told you about 7 new languages supported by , our fully managed service for machine…aws.amazon.com
Amazon Transcribe: Automatic Speech Recognition
15 new languages have been added in two batches (documentation).
Posted On: Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video in Gulf Arabic, Swiss German, Hebrew…aws.amazon.com
Posted On: Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video in Irish English, Scottish English, Welsh…aws.amazon.com
Australian English is supported in streaming mode.
Real-time transcription use cases span diverse verticals, including contact centers, media and entertainment, courtroom…aws.amazon.com
Alternative transcriptions are available, i.e. different interpretations of the transcribed audio.
Posted On: Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a…aws.amazon.com
Regional expansion: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions.
Machine Learning Services
Amazon SageMaker
Multi-model endpoints (documentation)!
Businesses are increasingly developing per-user machine learning (ML) models instead of cohort or segment-based models…aws.amazon.com
A new version of XGBoost is available in Amazon SageMaker (documentation).
In addition to the new features brought by the v0.9 framework, this new SageMaker release offers customers…aws.amazon.com
SageMaker is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) region.
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build…aws.amazon.com
AWS DeepRacer
I first wrote about at this time last year, and described it as an opportunity for you to get some hands-on experience…aws.amazon.com
Infrastructure and Frameworks
Amazon Elastic Inference: Fractional GPU Acceleration
New accelerators with more GPU memory, woohoo (documentation).
Amazon Elastic Inference allows you to attach just the right amount of GPU-powered acceleration to any Amazon EC2…aws.amazon.com
Deep Learning Containers
PyTorch is now supported (documentation).