To better understand AWS AI offerings, we can group the services into two main groups.
The following diagram shows the subsets of AWS AI capabilities and AWS ML platforms that we will be covering in this book, organized by the two groups:
The list of AWS ML services is growing every year. For example, Amazon Personalize, Forecast, Textract, and DeepRacer were announced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, and were in limited preview. These services became available for general use around mid 2019.
The first group in the preceding diagram are the AWS AI capabilities. These services are built on top of AWS pre-trained AI technologies. They work right out of the box to provide ready-made intelligence for your applications. You do not need to understand the AI techniques that make them tick, and you do not need to maintain the infrastructure to host...
