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

Active learning workflow for Amazon Comprehend custom classification models – Part 1

Favorite Amazon Comprehend  Custom Classification API enables you to easily build custom text classification models using your business-specific labels without learning ML. For example, your customer support organization can use Custom Classification to automatically categorize inbound requests by problem type based on how the customer has described the issue.  You can

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 26, 2020

Expanding Amazon Lex conversational experiences with US Spanish and British English

Favorite Amazon Lex provides the power of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, along with natural language understanding (NLU) for recognizing user intents. This combination allows you to develop sophisticated conversational interfaces using both voice and text for chatbots, IVR bots, and voicebots. This week, we’re announcing

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 25, 2020

Streamline modeling with Amazon SageMaker Studio and the Amazon Experiments SDK

Favorite The modeling phase is a highly iterative process in machine learning (ML) projects, where data scientists experiment with various data preprocessing and feature engineering strategies, intertwined with different model architectures, which are then trained with disparate sets of hyperparameter values. This highly iterative process with many moving parts can,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 25, 2020