Building ML Solutions with AWS AI Services

Up to this point, we have mainly focused on the skills and technologies required to build and deploy ML models using open-source technologies and managed ML platforms. To solve business problems with ML, however, you don’t always have to build, train, and deploy your ML models from scratch. An alternative option is to use fully managed AI services. AI services are fully managed APIs or applications with pre-trained models that perform specific ML tasks, such as object detection or sentiment analysis. Some AI services also allow you to train custom models with your data for a defined ML task, such as document classification. AI services promise to enable organizations to build ML-enabled solutions without requiring strong ML competencies.

In this chapter, we are going to switch gears and talk about several AWS AI services and where they can be used in business applications. Please note that the focus of this chapter will not be...