Key features of Amazon Location - Amazon Location Service

Key features of Amazon Location

Amazon Location offers a comprehensive set of features to enhance your location-based applications and services. This page provides an overview of the key capabilities available, including Maps, Places, Routes, and Geofences and Trackers. Leveraging these features, you can build rich, location-aware experiences tailored to your specific use cases, whether it's delivering real-time location intelligence, enabling location-based services, or optimizing logistics and transportation operations.

Amazon Location provides the following features:

Maps

Amazon Location Service Maps lets you visualize location information and is the foundation of many location-based service capabilities. Amazon Location Service offers both dynamic and static maps.

Dynamic Maps allow you to create interactive maps using map tiles, with the option to use pre-built map styles such as standard, monochrome, hybrid, and satellite. You can stitch the Dynamic Maps content (Tiles, Styles, Glyphs, and Sprites) together using a map rendering engine, such as MapLibre.

Static Maps allow you to create pre-rendered, non-interactive map images that display a fixed geographical area to be embedded in applications without complex renderers.

For more information, see Amazon Location Service Maps.

Places

Amazon Location Service Places lets you integrate search and geocode functionality into your application. You can:

  • Use geocode (Forward and Reverse) to convert a place, such an admin area, street, or address into geographic coordinates and vice versa.

  • Use places search (Text and Nearby) to search for points of interest and get information on contact, access points, and opening hours.

  • Use autocomplete or suggestions to autofill or predict an address or place based on user input. You can also use Get Place to get place details by place ID.

For more information, see Amazon Location Service Places.

Routes

Amazon Location Service Routes lets you find routes, service area, and optimize and analyze routes. You can do the following:

  • Estimate travel time and distance based on an up-to-date road network and live traffic information.

  • Create a service area or isoline based on distance and time thresholds of your business need.

  • Calculate a matrix (time and distance) for multiple origins and destinations and use the same for route planning.

  • Align GPS traces to the nearest road segment, to improve accuracy of vehicle tracking and route visualization.

  • Find the most efficient order to travel to multiple destinations, also known as solving the travelling salesman problem.

For more information, see Amazon Location Service Routes.

Geofences

Amazon Location Service Geofences lets you give your application the ability to detect and act when a device enters or exits a defined geographical boundary known as a geofence. Automatically send an entry or exit event to Amazon EventBridge when a geofence breach is detected. This lets you initiate downstream actions, such as sending a notification to a target.

For more information, see Amazon Location Service Geofences.

Trackers

Amazon Location Service Trackers let you retrieve the current and historical location of devices that are running your tracking-enabled application. You can also link trackers with Amazon Location Service geofences to evaluate location updates from your devices against your geofences automatically. Trackers can help you reduce costs by filtering position updates that haven't moved before storing or evaluating them against geofences.

For more information, see Amazon Location Service trackers.