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What is Amazon Rekognition and what kinds of tasks can it perform on images and videos?

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Amazon Rekognition is a fully managed computer vision service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, scenes, faces, and text, and it can also perform tasks such as facial comparison, content moderation to flag inappropriate images, and celebrity recognition, all through a simple API call without requiring you to build or train your own computer vision models.
aws rekognition detect-labels --image '{"S3Object":{"Bucket":"my-bucket","Name":"photo.jpg"}}' --max-labels 10
Real-world example A social media platform uses Rekognition to automatically scan uploaded images for inappropriate content, flagging anything that violates community guidelines before it becomes publicly visible to other users.

Common follow-ups: How accurate is Rekognition's facial comparison feature?;Can Rekognition be trained to recognize custom objects specific to a business?

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