Category: FAANG

This is a guest post by Stephen Carrad, Vice President at JP Morgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan & Chase Co. started its cloud journey four years ago, building the integrations required to deploy cloud-native applications into the cloud in a resilient and secure manner. In the first year, three applications tentatively dipped their toes into …

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Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the ML workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. Studio comes with built-in integration with Amazon EMR so that data scientists can interactively prepare data at …

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death globally: more people die each year from CVDs than from any other cause. The COVID-19 pandemic made organizations change healthcare delivery to reduce staff contact with sick people and the overall pressure on the healthcare system. This technology enables organizations to deliver telehealth solutions, which …

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Since 2020, NHS England’s use of Palantir software has become an area of increasing interest. While we have shared some of the highlights of our collaboration, such as the development of Purpose-based Access Controls (PBAC), some inaccuracies persist in the discourse surrounding it. In this post, we set out the key facts. We are proud of …

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Amazon Rekognition is a computer vision service that makes it simple to add image and video analysis to your applications using proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology that does not require machine learning (ML) expertise. With Amazon Rekognition, you can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in images and videos and detect inappropriate content. …

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Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time-series forecasts. Recently, based on Amazon Forecast, we helped one of our retail customers achieve accurate demand forecasting, within 8 weeks. The solution improved the manual forecast by an average of 10% in regards to the …

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Enterprises often need to communicate effectively to a large base of customers, partners, and stakeholders across several different languages. They need to translate and localize content such as marketing materials, product content assets, operational manuals, and legal documents. Each business unit in the enterprise has different translation workloads and often manages their own translation requirements …

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This is a guest blog post co-written with Minghui Yu and Jianzhe Xiao from Bytedance. ByteDance is a technology company that operates a range of content platforms to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across languages, cultures, and geographies. Users trust and enjoy our content platforms because of the rich, intuitive, and safe experiences they …

Read more “ByteDance saves up to 60% on inference costs while reducing latency and increasing throughput using AWS Inferentia”

Companies that sell products or services online need to constantly monitor customer reviews left on their website after purchasing a product. The company’s marketing and customer service departments analyze these reviews to understand customer sentiment. For example, marketing could use this data to create campaigns targeting different customer segments. Customer service departments could use this …

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