Amazon Personalize
Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-ai-practitioner-certified/learn/lecture/44887675
- đź”§Â Real-time personalized recommendations
- e.g. personalized product recommendations, re-ranking, customized direct marketing…
- Fully-managed ML service
- Uses same technology used by Amazon.com
- Integrates well into existing websites and applications
- Use cases: retail stores, media, entertainment…

Amazon Personalize Recipes
- Recipes = algorithms prepared for specific use cases
- Customers must provide the training configuration on top of the recipe
- Example recipes:
- Recommending items for users (
USER_PERSONALIZATION
recipes)
- Ranking items for a user (
PERSONALIZED_RANKING
recipes)
- Recommending trending or popular items (
POPULAR_ITEMS
recipes)
- Trending-Now, Popularity-Count
- Recommending similar items (
RELATED_ITEMS
recipes)
- Recommending the next best action (
PERSONALIZED_ACTIONS
recipes)
- Getting user segments (
USER_SEGMENTATION
recipes)
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-ai-practitioner-certified/learn/lecture/44887679
- 💡 Origin: Chess Mechanical Turk → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
- đź”§Â Crowdsourcing marketplace to perform simple human tasks
- Distributed virtual workforce
- Example:
- You have a dataset of 10 million unlabeled images
- You distribute the task on Mechanical Turk and humans will tag/label those images
- You set the reward per image (e.g. $0.10 per image)