What is Amazon Rekognition?
Amazon Rekognition offers pre-trained and customizable computer vision
(CV) capabilities to extract information and insights from images
and videos.
- Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation automates and streamlines image and video moderation workflows using machine learning (ML), to process millions of images and videos
efficiently while detecting inappropriate or unwanted, with fully
managed APIs and customizable moderation rules to keep users safe and
the business compliant.
- Amazon Rekognition Identity Verification has facial recognition and analysis capabilities that can be quickly added to user on-boarding and authentication workflows to verify opted-in users' identity online.
- Add pre-trained or customizable computer vision APIs to applications without building machine learning (ML) models and infrastructure from scratch.
- Analyze millions of images, streaming, and stored videos within seconds, and augment human review tasks with artificial intelligence (AI).
- Scale up and down based on business needs with fully managed AI capabilities and pay only for the images and videos analyzed.
Thousands of images and videos are free per month for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier
Categories & Use Cases
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English, Arabic, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
FAQs
What is Amazon Rekognition?
Amazon offers Rekognition, an image and video visual analytics tool that is trained on locating and identifying labeled or tag-related objects, events, people, and also inappropriate content in images and video so that images and video can more safely and reliably be integrated and positioned in web applications or presentations after it conducts its analysis.




