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Amazon Rekognition Getting Started

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Overview

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With Amazon Rekognition, you can analyze images and videos to detect and recognize objects, people, text, activities, and more. In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon Rekognition. If you are new to the service, you will learn how to start using Amazon Rekognition through a demonstration on the AWS Management Console. You will learn about integrating powerful image and video analysis capabilities into your applications without building complex machine learning (ML) models from scratch. You will also learn how to create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Amazon Rekognition API to detect labels in an image.


Activities

  • Presentations
  • Demonstrations
  • Knowledge Checks


Course objectives

  • Identify the purpose of Amazon Rekognition
  • Recognize problems Amazon Rekognition can solve
  • Select the benefits of Amazon Rekognition
  • Recognize key characteristics about Amazon Rekognition pricing
  • Identify typical use cases for Amazon Rekognition
  • Recognize how to use Amazon Rekognition


Intended audience

  • Developers
  • Architects
  • Data Scientists


Recommended Skills

  • Basic Python proficiency
  • AWS Technical Essentials
  • AWS Lambda Foundations


Course outline


Module 1: Introduction

  • Introduction to Amazon Rekognition
  • Architecture and Use Cases


Module 2: Using Amazon Rekognition

  • Detecting Faces in an Image
  • Extracting Text from an Image
  • Detecting Labels in an Image


Module 3: Resources

  • Learn More
  • Contact Us

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