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AWS AI tools help customers adjust to changes amid pandemic

AWS AI tools help customers adjust to changes amid pandemic

Amazon Web Services Inc. today shared details about how a few of its customers have used Amazon Textract and other artificial intelligence offerings in its public cloud to respond to operational changes during the pandemic. Amazon Textract is a managed AI service in the AWS cloud that can extract text from documents. It’s a specialized [] The post AWS’ AI tools help customers adjust to changes ami

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Author: Maria Deutscher

Date: 2020-11-20

URL: https://siliconangle.com/2020/11/19/aws-ai-tools-help-customers-adjust-changes-amid-pandemic/

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