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Category: Artificial Intelligence
Majority of Alexa Now Running on Faster, More Cost-Effective HAQM EC2 Inf1 Instances
Today, we are announcing that the HAQM Alexa team has migrated the vast majority of their GPU-based machine learning inference workloads to HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia. This resulted in 25% lower end-to-end latency, and 30% lower cost compared to GPU-based instances for Alexa’s text-to-speech workloads. The lower […]
HAQM SageMaker Continues to Lead the Way in Machine Learning and Announces up to 18% Lower Prices on GPU Instances
Since 2006, HAQM Web Services (AWS) has been helping millions of customers build and manage their IT workloads. From startups to large enterprises to public sector, organizations of all sizes use our cloud computing services to reach unprecedented levels of security, resiliency, and scalability. Every day, they’re able to experiment, innovate, and deploy to production […]
HAQM Transcribe Now Supports Automatic Language Identification
Update October 1, 2021 – This post has been edited to remove outdated S3 buckets. In 2017, we launched HAQM Transcribe, an automatic speech recognition service that makes it easy for developers to add a speech-to-text capability to their applications. Since then, we added support for more languages, enabling customers globally to transcribe audio recordings in […]
AWS announces AWS Contact Center Intelligence solutions
What was announced? We’re announcing the availability of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions, a combination of services that empowers customers to easily integrate AI into contact centers, made available through AWS Partner Network (APN) partners. AWS CCI has solutions for self-service, live-call analytics & agent assist, and post-call analytics, making it possible for customers […]
HAQM ECS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
As machine learning and deep learning models become more sophisticated, hardware acceleration is increasingly required to deliver fast predictions at high throughput. Today, we’re very happy to announce that AWS customers can now use the HAQM EC2 Inf1 instances on HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS), for high performance and the lowest prediction cost in […]
HAQM Translate now supports Office documents
Whether your organization is a multinational enterprise present in many countries, or a small startup hungry for global success, translating your content to local languages may be an enduring challenge. Indeed, text data often comes in many formats, and processing them may require several different tools. Also, as all these tools may not support the […]
HAQM Fraud Detector is now Generally Available
What was announced? HAQM Fraud Detector is now Generally Available! ? In case you missed the announcement during 2019 re:Invent week, HAQM Fraud Detector was originally released in preview mode on December 3rd, 2019. But today it is now Generally Available for customers to check out. What is HAQM Fraud Detector? HAQM Fraud Detector is […]
New – Label Videos with HAQM SageMaker Ground Truth
Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, HAQM Sagemaker Ground Truth is a capability of HAQM SageMaker that makes it easy to annotate machine learning datasets. Customers can efficiently and accurately label image, text and 3D point cloud data with built-in workflows, or any other type of data with custom workflows. Data samples are automatically distributed to […]