AI Foundations & Concepts · Foundation
AWS Managed AI Services: Textract, Comprehend, Rekognition and Friends
The pre-trained API layer that solves document, text, image and speech problems in an afternoon — and the cases where reaching for a foundation model is the wrong answer.
- 45 min lesson
- beginner level
- AWS AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Textract: forms, tables, Queries, AnalyzeExpense, AnalyzeID
- Comprehend: entities, sentiment, PII detection, custom models, flywheels
- Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly and Translate at a glance
- Per-page and per-unit pricing versus per-token pricing
- Confidence scores and bounding boxes as auditability
- The hybrid pattern: deterministic extraction then LLM judgement
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 4 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.