[raghavtoshniwal]

This plays so well with the theory of AWS taking a slice of all web activity. They are commoditising more and more complex tasks and enabling huge number of engineers to bootstrap their idea with amazing tech from day 1. A huge jump from S3/EC2 to this. Commendable.

[jjeaff]

I sort of agree. But I think the reality is a little closer to Apple's style of innovation. Few of the things that aws offers are things that didn't exist before. For example, data extraction and image recognition APIs have been around for a long while now from several different providers.

AWS is just aggregating it all into one place and giving it a really good final polish.

[ocrcustomserver]

I was surprised to see them also announce "Amazon Comprehend Medical" which is NLP for a specific vertical: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/medical/