AWS unveils five machine learning services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday announced five new machine learning services aimed at helping companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors embed intelligence in their production processes. The new services – Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, the AWS Panorama Appliance, the AWS Panorama SDK, and Amazon Lookout for Vision – are designed to help these companies to improve operational efficiency, quality control, security, and workplace safety. The services combine sophisticated machine learning, sensor analysis, and computer vision capabilities to address common technical challenges faced by industrial customers, and represent the most comprehensive suite of cloud-to-edge industrial machine learning services available. "Industrial and manufacturing customers are constantly under pressure from their shareholders, customers, governments, and competitors to reduce costs, improve quality, and maintain compliance. These organizations would like to use the cloud and machine learning to help them automate processes and augment human capabilities across their operations, but building these systems can be error prone, complex, time consuming, and expensive," said Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon Machine Learning for AWS.