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

Favorite 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

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning October 2, 2020

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

Favorite 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,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning October 1, 2020

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

Favorite 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 big data

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 30, 2020

BERT inference on G4 instances using Apache MXNet and GluonNLP: 1 million requests for 20 cents

Favorite Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) [1] has become one of the most popular models for natural language processing (NLP) applications. BERT can outperform other models in several NLP tasks, including question answering and sentence classification. Training the BERT model on large datasets is expensive and time consuming, and

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 29, 2020

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

Favorite 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

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 29, 2020

Football tracking in the NFL with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite With the 2020 football season kicking off, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is continuing its work with the National Football League (NFL) on several ongoing game-changing initiatives. Specifically, the NFL and AWS are teaming up to develop state-of-the-art cloud technology using machine learning (ML) aimed at aiding the officiating process

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 26, 2020