Developers Can Now Leverage Amazon's Machine Learning Capabilities
Amazon is now offering its machine learning capabilities to developers as an Amazon Web Services offering. The machine learning capabilities make it easier for developers to use historical data to build and deploy predictive models.
The offering is based on the same machine learning technology Amazon's own developers use, which the company says includes generating over 50 billion predictions a week.
The Machine Learning hooks developers up with APIs and Wizards that guide them through creating and tuning machine learning models that can be "easily deployed and scale to support billions of predictions."
The offering is integrated with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) so it's expected to work with data that's already stored in the AWS cloud.
"Until now, very few developers have been able to build applications with machine learning capabilities because doing so required expertise in statistics, data analysis, and machine learning," Amazon said.
"In addition, the traditional process for applying machine learning involves many manual, repetitive, and error-prone tasks such as computing summary statistics, performing data analysis, using machine learning algorithms to train a model based on data, evaluating and fine tuning the model, and then generating predictions using the model. Amazon Machine Learning makes machine learning broadly accessible to all software developers by abstracting away this complexity and automating these steps. With Amazon Machine Learning, developers can use the AWS Management Console or APIs to quickly create as many models as they need, and generate predictions from them with high throughput without worrying about provisioning hardware, distributing and scaling the computational load, managing dependencies, or monitoring and troubleshooting the infrastructure. There is no setup cost, and developers pay as they go so they can start small and scale as an application grows."
Comcast is already using Amazon Machine Learning for data science analytics.
