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Automating Translations With Amazon Translate and AWS Lambda

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 45 minutes
Students: 23
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Description

Language translation is becoming increasingly important as businesses expand globally. To provide localized content and solutions, companies should be able to translate text and documents into multiple languages.

Amazon Translate is an affordable and customizable language translation service that utilizes deep learning models to deliver accurate, high-quality translations. Amazon Translate can translate text and documents between 75 languages and can be leveraged to perform both batch and real-time translations.

In this lab, you will learn how to use Amazon Translate to translate text and HTML files. You will also learn how to call the Amazon Translate API from an AWS Lambda function and automatically translate HTML files from an Amazon S3 bucket using AWS Lambda and S3 event notifications.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Translate text using Amazon Translate
  • Call the Amazon Translate API from an AWS Lambda function
  • Automatically translate HTML files from an Amazon S3 bucket using AWS Lambda and S3 event notifications

Intended audience

  • Candidates for the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon Translate
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3
  • Python

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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Covered topics

Amazon Web Services
Compute for AWS
Artificial Intelligence for AWS
Storage for AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon Translate
Amazon S3
Serverless for AWS
Machine Learning for AWS
Serverless
Machine Learning
Storage
Compute
Artificial Intelligence
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Lab steps

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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Translating Text in Real-Time With Amazon Translate
  3. Selecting Amazon S3 Documents to Translate
  4. Automatically Translating Documents With AWS Lambda and Amazon Translate

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