AI has taken the tech community by storm. Developers who get less opportunity to utilize AI as part of their day-to-day job responsibilities are figuring out ways to keep themselves up to date on AI. I am sure most of us might have been exposed to some AI in our day-to-day lives in the form of ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc.
From a learning perspective, for developers and business analysts, even before they begin developing with AI, it is essential to understand what different vendors offer in AI today. The three major cloud providers offer a range of solutions in the form of AI-as-a-Service. These individual offerings can be orchestrated to provide a wholesome enhancement to the existing product or launch a greenfield application using AI.
Even though the concept of cloud is the same and more or less all the cloud providers have an equivalent of the same services offered by other cloud providers, it may be easy if we know the same service in the respective cloud that they are regularly or familiar with. Let us categorize the various offerings and examine the services provided by AWS as of today.
| # | Service Category | AWS Offering | Short Description of the Service |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machine Learning Platform | Amazon SageMaker AI | A fully managed service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly. |
| 2 | Human-in-the-Loop AI | Amazon Augmented AI | Helps human reviewers review machine learning predictions with built-in human review workflows. |
| 3 | Code Analysis | Amazon CodeGuru | An ML-powered service that provides intelligent recommendations to improve code quality and find costly code lines. |
| 4 | Operations Monitoring | Amazon DevOps Guru | An ML-powered service that automatically detects operational anomalies and provides recommendations for resolution. |
| 5 | Natural Language Processing | Amazon Comprehend | A natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships within unstructured text. |
| 6 | Time Series Forecasting | Amazon Forecast | A fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts. (Note: As of late 2021, Amazon Forecast is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use it.) |
| 7 | Fraud Detection | Amazon Fraud Detector | A fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities using machine learning. |
| 8 | Enterprise Search | Amazon Kendra | An intelligent enterprise search service that helps organizations quickly find information across various content repositories. |
| 9 | Personalization & Recommendations | Amazon Personalize | A machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to build applications with personalized recommendations. |
| 10 | Text-to-Speech | Amazon Polly | A service that converts text into lifelike speech. |
| 11 | Image & Video Analysis | Amazon Rekognition | A service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis capabilities to applications. |
| 12 | Document Processing | Amazon Textract | A machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents. |
| 13 | Speech-to-Text | Amazon Transcribe | An automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that adds speech-to-text capability to applications. |
| 14 | Language Translation | Amazon Translate | A neural machine translation service that provides fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. |
| 15 | Generative AI (Music) | AWS DeepComposer | A service that allows developers to create original music using generative AI. |
| 16 | Reinforcement Learning | AWS DeepRacer | An autonomous 1/18th scale race car powered by reinforcement learning. |
| 17 | Edge Computer Vision | AWS Panorama | A machine learning appliance and SDK that brings computer vision to on-premises cameras for automated visual inspection. |
| 18 | Industrial Anomaly Detection | Amazon Monitron | An end-to-end system that uses machine learning to detect abnormal behavior in industrial machinery for predictive maintenance. |
| 19 | Healthcare Data Lake | AWS HealthLake | A HIPAA-eligible service that aggregates scattered health data into a centralized, compliant data lake. |
| 20 | Visual Anomaly Detection | Amazon Lookout for Vision | A machine learning service that helps detect visual anomalies in manufactured products. (Note: AWS is discontinuing support for Lookout for Vision, with new customers no longer having access after October 10, 2024, and full discontinuation by October 31, 2025.) |
| 21 | Equipment Anomaly Detection | Amazon Lookout for Equipment | A machine learning service that detects abnormal equipment behavior by analyzing sensor data to predict maintenance needs. (Note: Amazon Lookout for Equipment is no longer open to new customers.) |
| 22 | Metrics Anomaly Detection | Amazon Lookout for Metrics | A machine learning service that automatically detects anomalies in business and operational metrics. |
| 23 | Business AI Assistant | Amazon Q Business | A generative AI-powered assistant for business users that can answer questions, summarize content, and generate content based on enterprise data. |
| 24 | Omics Data Analysis | AWS HealthOmics | A service for storing, querying, and analyzing genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data in healthcare and life sciences. |
| 25 | Foundation Models | Amazon Bedrock | A fully managed service providing access to foundation models from various providers through an API for building and scaling generative AI applications. |
| 26 | AI Assistant | Amazon Q | An AI assistant designed for work that can answer questions, summarize content, create content, and complete tasks based on company data. |
| 27 | Medical NLP | Amazon Comprehend Medical | An NLP service that makes it easy to extract insights from unstructured medical text using machine learning. |
| 28 | Conversational AI | Amazon Lex | A service for building conversational interfaces into applications using voice and text. |
| 29 | Medical Imaging | AWS HealthImaging | A HIPAA-eligible service for medical imaging applications to store, transform, and analyze medical images at petabyte scale. |
The above services from Amazon range from a fundamental machine learning platform to specialized services that help developers and enterprises integrate AI into their existing applications or add AI to new applications.
Happy learning!
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