AI Services on AWS

Interactive freshman lesson: discover how AWS AI services can understand text, images, speech, recommendations, search, and generative AI tasks through beginner-friendly examples and hands-on decision activities.

Community College Cloud Computing

Welcome, Future AI Cloud Builders!

Today’s goal: By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe common AWS AI services and choose an appropriate service for a beginner-friendly real-world problem.

Artificial intelligence can help computers recognize images, understand speech, summarize text, translate language, recommend products, and support chat experiences. AWS offers managed AI services so teams can use AI without building everything from scratch.

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Generate

Create or summarize text, support chatbots, and build generative AI applications.

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See

Analyze images and videos to detect objects, text, faces, or unsafe content.

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Listen & Speak

Convert speech to text, text to speech, or build voice-based interactions.

Beginner Big Idea

AWS AI Services Help Apps Become Smarter

AWS AI services are cloud tools that add intelligence to applications. Instead of writing complex AI algorithms from scratch, developers can connect to AWS services through the cloud.

Real-world application: A campus help desk wants a website where students can ask common questions, upload screenshots of error messages, and listen to instructions in audio form. AWS AI services can help with chat, image text detection, translation, and voice output.

Three Ways to Think About AI on AWS

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Ready-to-use AI

Services such as Rekognition, Polly, Translate, and Comprehend solve common AI tasks.

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Build ML Models

Amazon SageMaker helps teams build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

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Generative AI

Amazon Bedrock helps developers build apps using foundation models.

Quick Reflection

Core Content

Common AWS AI Services for Beginners

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Amazon Bedrock

Build generative AI applications using foundation models.

Use for: chat, summaries, content generation.

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Amazon Rekognition

Analyze images and videos for objects, text, people, and content moderation.

Use for: image analysis.

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Amazon Transcribe

Convert speech recordings into text.

Use for: captions, notes, transcripts.

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Amazon Polly

Convert text into realistic speech.

Use for: audio instructions and accessibility.

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Amazon Translate

Translate text between languages.

Use for: multilingual support.

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Amazon Comprehend

Analyze text for sentiment, key phrases, and entities.

Use for: understanding feedback.

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Amazon Kendra

Create intelligent search across documents and knowledge bases.

Use for: FAQ and document search.

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Amazon SageMaker

Build, train, and deploy custom machine learning models.

Use for: custom ML projects.

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Amazon Personalize

Create personalized recommendations.

Use for: suggested products, lessons, or content.

Interactive Explorer

Service Explorer

Select a student-friendly AI task and see which AWS service might help.

Professor tip: Start with the task first. Ask: “What do I need the app to do?” Then choose the AWS AI service that matches the task.
Hands-On Practice

Sort the AI Use Cases

Drag each card into the correct category. If drag-and-drop is difficult, click a card and then click a category box.

Use Case Cards

📄 Language

Text, translation, sentiment, chat.

🖼️ Vision

Images and videos.

🎙️ Speech

Audio, voice, and captions.

Real-World Decision Making

Choose the Best AWS AI Service

For each situation, choose the best AWS AI service.

Scenario 1: Student Help Chatbot

A college wants a chatbot to answer common questions using generative AI.

Scenario 2: Caption Lecture Audio

An instructor has an audio recording and wants a text transcript.

Scenario 3: Read Instructions Aloud

A student wants written lab instructions converted into spoken audio.

Scenario 4: Analyze Student Feedback

A program wants to identify common phrases and sentiment in student comments.

Scenario 5: Detect Text in an Image

A student uploads a screenshot and wants the app to detect text in the image.

Knowledge Check

Quick Quiz

Wrap-Up

AI Services on AWS Summary

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AWS AI Beginner

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Exit Ticket: In one sentence, name one AWS AI service and what it can help an application do.