Amazon Translate Cheat Sheet

• A Neural Machine Translation service that provides fluent translation with higher accuracy than traditional statistical and rule-based translation models.
• Powered by deep learning models that deliver fast, accurate, and affordable translation between supported languages.
• Supports batch translation, real-time, and on-demand translations.

Common Use Cases

• Language localization
• Translating content for text analytics
• Cross-lingual communication

Concepts

• Amazon Translate uses a Translation Model that consists of two (2) components:
  • Encoder
    • Read a source text one word at a time.
    • Creates a semantic representation of each word.
  • Decoder
    • Uses the constructed semantic representation of the encoded text and translates it to the target language one word at a time.
    • The decoder also uses a method called the Attention mechanism to translate obscure words or phrases correctly.
• When Automatic Language Detection is enabled, Amazon Translate uses Amazon Comprehend on the backend to automatically detect the language used in the source text.

Features

• Broad Language Coverage
• Neural-Network Based
  • Produces high-quality translations by utilizing deep learning technologies.
• Customized Machine Translation
  • Enables you to tailor your translations to suit domain-specific terminologies.
  • Useful for changing the tone, style, and word choices for the translated text.
• Secure Machine Translation
  • Communication between Amazon Translate and your application is SSL-protected.
• Real-Time Document Translation
  • Supports translating whole documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML) while preserving formatting.
• Batch Translation via S3
  • Allows large-scale asynchronous translation jobs using Amazon S3 input/output folders.
• Terminology Support
  • Lets you upload custom terminology files (CSV/TMX) to enforce specific word choices.
• Parallel Data (Training Data) Support
  • You can upload example sentence pairs to further refine translation quality for domain-specific content.
• Formality Control
  • Lets you choose between formal or informal tone in supported languages.
• Integration with Other AWS Services
  • Works with Amazon Comprehend, S3, Lambda, and Amazon Translate SDK for automated pipelines.

Amazon Translate Pricing

• Standard Translation
  • Billed for $15.00 per million characters
• Active Custom Translation
  • Billed for $60.00 per million characters

Note: If you are studying for the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam, we highly recommend that you take our AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty Practice Exams and read our Machine Learning Specialty exam study guide.

Amazon Translate Cheat Sheet References:

https://aws.amazon.com/translate/faqs/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/translate/latest/dg/what-is.html
https://aws.amazon.com/translate/details/
https://aws.amazon.com/translate/pricing/