Should Amazon be your AI and machine learning platform? ZDNet

Does your business want to become successful at facial recognition? As the rise of cloud computing has enabled faster and cheaper data processing, businesses are racing to harness the power of artificial intelligence -- via machine learning -- to understand data. But with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and others offering similarly-priced machine learning platforms for the enterprise, it's often difficult to know where to begin. Amazon Machine Learning (AML) offers companies an easy, highly-scalable on-ramp for interpreting data. Under the umbrella of Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, AML offers visual aids and easy-to-access analytics to make machine learning accessible to developers without a data science background, using the same technology fueling Amazon's internal algorithms. It requires little in terms of hardware or software investment, and has a pay-as-you-go model.