Amazon Rekognition vs. Azure Machine Learning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Rekognition
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Amazon offers Rekognition, an image and video visual analytics tool that is trained on locating and identifying labeled or tag-related objects, events, people, and also inappropriate content in images and video so that images and video can more safely and reliably be integrated and positioned in web applications or presentations after it conducts its analysis.N/A
Azure Machine Learning
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning is and end-to-end data science and analytics solution that helps professional data scientists to prepare data, develop experiments, and deploy models in the cloud. It replaces the Azure Machine Learning Workbench.
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Editions & Modules
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Studio Pricing - Free
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Production Web API - Dev/Test
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Studio Pricing - Standard
$9.99
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Production Web API - Standard S1
$100.13
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Production Web API - Standard S2
$1000.06
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Production Web API - Standard S3
$9999.98
per month
Offerings
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Amazon RekognitionAzure Machine Learning
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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User Ratings
Amazon RekognitionAzure Machine Learning
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Usability
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User Testimonials
Amazon RekognitionAzure Machine Learning
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for image processing and recognition based applications and can be easily used using API calls without actually. writing any code for image processing. It can be used with any professional software development as it is built with so much precision. I would not suggest it for a sole feature-based application like image tagging only because for that you can create your own algorithm specific to a domain you want.
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Azure can be a more unified product. It feels like 10 different tech teams were building it but we're not talking to each other. An example is when the user needs to know what is the next step. Automatically saving a previous state is very helpful as new users are usually not aware of the functionality.
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Pros
  • Image tagging is very good.
  • Object detection is precise.
  • Video tagging has become very easy using Rekognition.
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  • Easy to create the experiment.
  • Easy to adopt the best algorithm.
  • Efficient way to deploy the model as a web service.
  • Centralized platform for the life cycle of machine learning goal.
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Cons
  • The cost is bit more for small scale companies.
  • For text processing, OCR is not available in amazon rekognition.
  • Only facial search is available in image search.
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  • Few models: Even though it has a lot of Machine Learning models, it is quite limited when compared to R. Most Data Scientists still use and prefer R, so the newest models tend to release as R libraries. With Azure ML, we need to wait for Microsoft to evaluate and decide if including a new model is a good idea or not
  • Tableau interface: last time I checked there was no easy way to connect with Tableau.
  • Cloud based: You always need a good internet connection to use it.
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Usability
Very much suitable for many applications where the image processing features are secondary and independent of any domain. This makes it a general solution and the recognition features are returned in a JSON object in response to the API called made which is a very simple process.
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Good UX/UI and overall good usability, but it takes a while to get used to the product & platform. The whole design seems fragmented with little in terms of integration with project management tools such as JIRA, or wireframing. Overall it feels like an unfinished product that's meant for teaching more than for production.
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Support Rating
Support of Amazon is great. So far we are having a great experience using it.
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I'm satisfied with the Azure Machine Learning Studio- it fulfilled my goal in a single channel. Even haven't worr[ied] about the maintenance or any fault tolerance. This provide[s] the user interactive UI to grab the features easily. [Their] support teams also very help[ful], they stand with us at any time.
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Implementation Rating
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Alternatives Considered
Accuracy and usability of amazon Rekognition are great. It provides many functionalities its competitors do not. Also, the Amazon service is great in general.
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The answer is quite simple: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Workbench is the cheapest and most user friendly analytics tool I have ever seen! Unless you are running a team of data scientists, this is the tool to go. Most functions (marketing, sales, finance, supply chain, logistics, HR, R&D, etc.) could easily integrate Azure ML in its day to day activity.
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Return on Investment
  • The best thing it made our work fast.
  • It reduces the chance of failure of a project which is based on image or video processing.
  • We can assign anyone in our team to work on this as it very easy to use.
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  • It is easy to learn and construct, which impacts directly on productivity.
  • Good for experimentation and validation for simple models.
  • Has a use cost less than the best alternatives in the market.
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