Amazon simplifies incorporating AI predictions into apps and services

Amazon’s re:Invent 2019 conference is nearly two weeks out, but try telling that to Amazon Web Services (AWS) — it’s unveiling new products left and right. Following on the heels of Alexa on AWS Core and new languages Amazon Translate and Transcribe, AWS today detailed features designed to make adding AI predictions to apps and services easier than before. Amazon says that machine learning predictions will soon run on unstructured or relational data in Amazon S3 or Aurora, AWS’ cloud-hosted MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service. Specifically, customers will be able to train models in Amazon’s SageMaker platform and run predictions against those models with SQL using Aurora or Athena, Amazon’s interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3.