Important note For production use cases, it is recommended to use AWS Lambda with AWS Step Functions if you have dependent services or a chain of services. Using the same S3 bucket to store input and output objects is not recommended. Output object creation in the same bucket may trigger recursive Lambda invocation. If you […]

Exploring the benefits of Amazon Translate Some of the benefits of using Amazon Translate include the following: Next, you will get hands-on with Amazon Translate. Getting hands-on with Amazon Translate In this section, you will build a product by integrating AWS Lambda with Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Translate to read an image file […]

Getting hands-on with Amazon Comprehend In this section, you will build a pipeline where you can integrate AWS Lambda with Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Comprehend. You will then read an image file stored in an S3 bucket and detect the language of the text that has been extracted from the image. You will also use […]

Important note It is a best practice not to overprovision your function’s timeout settings. Always understand your code performance and set a function timeout accordingly. Overprovisioning a function timeout results in Lambda functions running longer, causing unexpected costs. If you are using asynchronous API calls in your Lambda function, then it is good to write […]

Speech to text with Amazon Transcribe In the previous section, you learned about text to speech. In this section, you will learn about speech to text and the service that provides it: Amazon Transcribe. It is an automatic speech recognition service that uses pre-trained deep learning models, which means that you do not have to […]

Getting hands-on with Amazon Polly In this section, you will build a pipeline where you can integrate AWS Lambda with Amazon Polly. The pipeline reads a text file and generates an MP3 file, saving it to another folder in the same bucket. You will monitor the task’s progress in CloudWatch logs. You will begin by […]

Text to speech with Amazon Polly Amazon Polly is all about converting text into speech, and it does so by using pretrained deep learning models. It is a fully managed service, so you do not have to do anything. You provide the plain text as input for synthesizing or in Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) […]

Exploring the benefits of Amazon Rekognition Here are some of the benefits of using Amazon Rekognition: With or without knowledge of image processing, you can perform image and video analysis just by using the APIs provided in Amazon Rekognition, which can be used for any application or service on several platforms. Getting hands-on with Amazon […]

In this chapter, you will learn about the AWS AI services for building chatbots, advanced text analysis, document analysis, transcription, and so on. This chapter has been designed in such a way that you can solve different use cases by integrating AWS AI services and get an idea of how they work. AWS is growing […]

Exam Readiness Drill – Chapter Review Questions Apart from a solid understanding of key concepts, being able to think quickly under time pressure is a skill that will help you ace your certification exam. That is why working on these skills early on in your learning journey is key. Chapter review questions are designed to […]