Amazon Rekognition Getting Started
AWS Skill Builder
Last updated January 31, 2025
A free, one-hour introduction to Amazon Rekognition, the AWS service that analyzes images and video. Rekognition detects and identifies objects, people, text, and activities through an API call, so an application can respond to what is in a picture or a video stream without anyone training a model first. The course covers what the service does and the problems it addresses, the technical concepts behind it, its benefits, how its pricing is structured, and the situations it suits. It then turns concrete: a guided demonstration in the AWS Management Console, and how to create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Rekognition API to detect labels in an image.
What you'll learn
- What Amazon Rekognition is and the problems it is designed to solve
- Detecting objects, people, text, and activities in images and video
- The technical concepts behind the service, and its benefits
- How its pricing is structured
- Typical use cases for image and video analysis
- A guided demonstration in the AWS Management Console
- How to create an AWS Lambda function that uses the Rekognition API to detect labels in an image
Frequently asked questions about Amazon Rekognition Getting Started
Who is Amazon Rekognition Getting Started for?
Developers, architects, and data scientists who want to add image and video analysis to an application through an API rather than train a vision model themselves.
Is Amazon Rekognition Getting Started free?
Yes — Amazon Rekognition Getting Started is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Amazon Rekognition Getting Started?
Recommended: basic Python, plus the AWS Technical Essentials and AWS Lambda Foundations courses. A free AWS Skill Builder account is needed to enroll.
Why we suggest this course
A fast, concrete look at what a managed vision service does and how it fits into an application, ending with how to create a Lambda function that calls the Rekognition API to detect labels in an image. One thing to know: it is a single-vendor introduction that builds on existing AWS knowledge, naming basic Python, AWS Technical Essentials, and AWS Lambda Foundations as recommended background, and you need a free AWS Skill Builder account to enroll.