Amazon Forecast - Accurate time-series forecasting service

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts. Companies today use everything from simple spreadsheets to complex financial planning software to attempt to accurately forecast future business outcomes such as product demand, resource needs, or financial performance. These tools build forecasts by looking at a historical series of data, which is called time series data. For example, such tools may try to predict the future sales of a raincoat by looking only at its previous sales data with the underlying assumption that the future is determined by the past. This approach can struggle to produce accurate forecasts for large sets of data that have irregular trends. Also, it fails to easily combine data series that change over time (such as price, discounts, web traffic, and number of employees) with relevant independent variables like product features and store locations.

Based on the same technology used at Amazon.com, Amazon Forecast uses machine learning to combine time series data with additional variables to build forecasts. Amazon Forecast requires no machine learning experience to get started. You only need to provide historical data, plus any additional data that you believe may impact your forecasts. For example, the demand for a particular color of a shirt may change with the seasons and store location. This complex relationship is hard to determine on its own, but machine learning is ideally suited to recognize it. Once you provide your data, Amazon Forecast will automatically examine it, identify what is meaningful, and produce a forecasting model capable of making predictions that are up to 50% more accurate than looking at time series data alone.

Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service, so there are no servers to provision, and no machine learning models to build, train, or deploy. You pay only for what you use, and there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments. (June, 2020) Retrieved from: https://aws.amazon.com/forecast/.


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Includes IFF		UnitPrice DescriptionProduct Description
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518210CZRQ276WAM9YU2PZZ0.0000000000ForecastDataPoints_in_ThousandsForecast Data Points per Month (Free Tier less than 100K): 0.00 USDAny Location OnDemand
518210CZRVQWG6BXCMC79KY0.0000000000GBDataInjection: Free Tier : 0 - 10 GB data injected per month 0 USDAny Location OnDemand


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