Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend
AWS Skill Builder
Last updated November 12, 2025
Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend is a free, one-hour introduction to Amazon Comprehend, AWS's managed natural language processing service. The point of the service is to pull structure out of plain text: given unstructured writing — reviews, support tickets, documents — it can identify the entities named in it, gauge the sentiment behind it, pull out the key phrases, and detect which language it's in, all without you needing NLP expertise of your own. The course works through the service from the outside in: its core concepts, the typical use cases and the architecture that surrounds them, the benefits, and how its cost is structured. It then turns concrete with a demonstration in the AWS Management Console, so you see what putting Comprehend to work on real text actually involves.
What you'll learn
- What Comprehend is and how it works
- The NLP tasks: entities, sentiment, key phrases, language detection
- Typical use cases + solution architecture
- Benefits and cost structure
- A guided console demo
- What a real-world implementation would take
Frequently asked questions about Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend
Who is Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend for?
Beginners who want a quick, practical orientation to extracting insight from unstructured text with a managed NLP service, using Amazon Comprehend.
Is Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend free?
Yes — Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend is completely free to take.
What are the prerequisites for Getting Started with Amazon Comprehend?
AWS Technical Essentials recommended; an AWS account is needed for the console demonstration.
Why we suggest this course
A short, concrete first look at how a managed NLP service turns unstructured text into something a program can act on — entities, sentiment, key phrases, and language — paired with a console demonstration rather than theory alone. One thing to know: this is an introduction to a single AWS service, so it is vendor-specific by design rather than a general tour of natural language processing — what you learn applies to Amazon Comprehend in particular, though the underlying tasks it performs are common across NLP tools.