What is Amazon Translate?

Amazon Translate is a text translation service that uses advanced machine learning technologies to provide high-quality translation on demand. You can use Amazon Translate to translate unstructured text documents or to build applications that work in multiple languages. See Supported languages and language codes for information about the languages that Amazon Translate supports.

Use cases

Use Amazon Translate to do the following:

Enable multilingual user experiences in your applications by integrating Amazon Translate:

• Translate company-authored content, such as meeting minutes, technician reports, knowledge-base articles, posts, and more.

• Translate interpersonal communications, such as email, in-game chat, customer service chat, so that customers and employees can connect in their preferred language.

Process and manage your company's incoming data:

• Analyze text, such as social media and news feeds, in many languages.

• Search for information, such as for eDiscovery cases, in many languages.

Enable language-independent processing by integrating Amazon Translate with other AWS services:

• Extract named entities, sentiment, and key phrases from unstructured text, such as social media streams with Amazon Comprehend.

• Make subtitles and live captioning available in many languages with Amazon Transcribe.

• Speak translated content with Amazon Polly.

• Translate document repositories stored in Amazon S3 .

• Translate text stored in the following databases: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift.

• Seamlessly integrate workflows with AWS Lambda or AWS Glue.

Are you a first-time user of Amazon Translate?

If you are a first-time user of Amazon Translate, we recommend that you start with the following topics:

1. How Amazon Translate works – Introduces Amazon Translate.

2. Getting started with Amazon Translate – Explains how to set up your AWS account and start using Amazon Translate.

3. Code examples for Amazon Translate using AWS SDKs – Use the code examples to explore the Amazon Translate APIs.

You can also use the following resources to learn about the Amazon Translate service:

• The AWS Machine Learning Blog includes useful articles about Amazon Translate.

• Amazon Translate Deep Dive Video Series provides introductory videos about Amazon Translate.

Amazon Translate pricing

As with other AWS products, there are no contracts or minimum commitments for using Amazon Translate. For more information about the cost of using Amazon Translate, see Amazon Translate Pricing.

Amazon Translate API Reference

The Amazon Translate API Reference is now a separate document. For more information, see Amazon Translate API Reference.