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AWS AI Services

AWS AI services are API-driven and pre-trained: they solve a specific task without requiring the caller to build or train a model. They sit above Amazon SageMaker AI, which is where custom models are built.

Vision

Section titled “Vision”
  • Amazon Rekognition — image and video analysis: objects, scenes, activities, faces, text in images, content moderation. See Rekognition.

Amazon Lookout for Vision, the industrial visual-inspection service, was closed to new customers on 10 October 2024 and discontinued on 31 October 2025. AWS directs defect-detection work to partner solutions, custom computer vision models on SageMaker AI, or vision models on Amazon Bedrock.

Language and text

Section titled “Language and text”
  • Amazon Comprehend — entities, key phrases, sentiment, targeted sentiment, PII, dominant language, syntax, plus custom classification and custom entity recognition. See Comprehend.
  • Amazon Translate — neural machine translation between 75 languages and language variants. See Translate.
  • Amazon Textract — text, forms, tables and targeted answers extracted from scanned documents and PDFs. See Textract.

Speech and conversation

Section titled “Speech and conversation”
  • Amazon Transcribe — automatic speech recognition, audio and video to text.
  • Amazon Polly — text to speech.
  • Amazon Lex — conversational interfaces: intent recognition, slot filling and dialogue management.

All three are covered on Transcribe, Polly and Lex.

Generative AI

Section titled “Generative AI”
  • Amazon Bedrock — API access to foundation models from AI21 Labs, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Qwen, Stability AI, TwelveLabs, Writer, xAI and others, with fine-tuning, evaluation and knowledge bases. Amazon’s own model family is Amazon Nova; the earlier Titan models remain available, mainly for embeddings. See Amazon Bedrock vs Amazon EMR.
  • Amazon Q Developer — coding assistant offering completions in the IDE and at the command line, code review and chat. This is the product formerly called Amazon CodeWhisperer, renamed on 30 April 2024.
Section titled “Personalisation and search”
  • Amazon Personalize — recommendation and user-segmentation service built on interaction data.
  • Amazon Kendra — enterprise search and retrieval. Kendra is no longer open to new customers; AWS points new retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise search work at Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. See Kendra.

Services closed to new customers

Section titled “Services closed to new customers”

Older AWS AI material recommends several services that a new account can no longer adopt. Each is covered on its own page with the current alternative:

  • Amazon Forecast — closed to new customers on 29 July 2024. Time-series forecasting moves to SageMaker AI. See Time-series storage and forecasting.
  • Amazon Fraud Detector — closed to new customers on 7 November 2025. See Fraud Detector.
  • Amazon Kendra — closed to new customers on 30 July 2026, after entering maintenance mode on 30 June 2026.

Where these fit

Section titled “Where these fit”
Data sources -> Data preparation -> AI processing -> Business applications
(S3, RDS)       (Glue)              (SageMaker AI)   (your services)
                                    (Bedrock API calls for generative AI)

For anything not listed here, check the AWS product index rather than trusting a hand-maintained list — this catalogue covers the services the rest of this section documents, not everything AWS offers.