name: Amazon Rekognition description: Amazon Rekognition is a cloud-based computer vision service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications, providing capabilities such as object and scene detection, facial analysis, face comparison, celebrity recognition, text detection, content moderation, custom labels, face liveness detection, and streaming video analysis using deep learning technology. image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-rekognition/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-05-19' specificationVersion: '0.18' kind: company apis: - name: Amazon Rekognition description: Amazon Rekognition provides image and video analysis APIs for label detection, facial analysis, face comparison, celebrity recognition, text detection, content moderation, custom labels, face liveness detection, and streaming video analysis. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ baseURL: https://rekognition.amazonaws.com tags: - Computer Vision - Image Analysis - Video Analysis - Facial Recognition - Machine Learning properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/what-is.html - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-rekognition-openapi.yml - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: GettingStarted url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/getting-started.html - type: Authentication url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/security_iam_service-with-iam.html - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/faqs/ - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-celebrity-recognition.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-content-moderation.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-custom-labels.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-face-collections.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-face-liveness.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-face-search.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-facial-analysis.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-image-analysis.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-stored-video-analysis.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-rekognition-text-detection.yaml common: - type: Portal url: https://aws.amazon.com/ - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ - type: SignUp url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/pricing/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ - type: Support url: https://aws.amazon.com/support/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/faqs/ - type: Blog url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/aws - type: StatusPage url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status - type: YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices - type: StackOverflow url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-rekognition - type: Contact url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ - type: Security url: https://aws.amazon.com/security/ - type: Compliance url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ - type: KnowledgeCenter url: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center - type: SpectralRules url: rules/amazon-rekognition-spectral-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/amazon-rekognition-vocabulary.yaml - type: Features data: - name: Object and Scene Detection description: Detect thousands of objects, scenes, and concepts in images and videos with high confidence scores using deep learning. - name: Facial Analysis description: Detect and analyze faces with attributes including age range, emotions, gender, and facial landmarks. - name: Face Comparison description: Compare faces across images to determine if they are the same person with a similarity score. - name: Face Collections description: Create searchable face collections to index and search millions of faces in near real-time. - name: Celebrity Recognition description: Identify thousands of celebrities in images and videos across categories like sports, entertainment, and politics. - name: Text Detection description: Detect and extract printed and handwritten text from images and videos in multiple languages. - name: Content Moderation description: Detect explicit, inappropriate, or violent content in images and videos for automated content moderation. - name: Custom Labels description: Build and train custom image classifiers using your own labeled images for domain-specific object detection. - name: Protective Equipment Detection description: Detect personal protective equipment such as face covers, hand covers, and head covers on persons in images. - name: Face Liveness Detection description: Verify that a user is physically present during identity verification to prevent spoofing attacks. - name: People Pathing description: Track and follow identified people across frames in stored video footage. - name: Video Segmentation description: Identify technical cues and segments such as black frames, end credits, and color bars in video content. - name: Streaming Video Analysis description: Analyze live streaming video in real-time using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams integration. - name: Image Properties Analysis description: Evaluate image quality attributes including sharpness, brightness, contrast, and dominant colors. - type: UseCases data: - name: Identity Verification description: Verify user identities by comparing selfies to ID documents or previously stored face images for onboarding and authentication. - name: Content Moderation description: Automatically moderate user-generated content on platforms to detect and filter explicit or inappropriate imagery. - name: Searchable Media Libraries description: Build searchable image and video archives by automatically tagging media with detected labels, faces, and text. - name: Workplace Safety Compliance description: Monitor camera feeds to detect whether workers are wearing required personal protective equipment in industrial settings. - name: Fraud Prevention description: Prevent identity fraud during digital onboarding by using face liveness detection to confirm real users. - name: Smart Retail Analytics description: Analyze in-store camera feeds to track customer behavior, measure foot traffic, and optimize product placement. - name: Public Safety and Security description: Search video archives for persons of interest by comparing faces against a known collection. - name: Media and Entertainment description: Automatically tag celebrities in photos and videos for media companies to improve content discoverability. - name: Custom Object Detection description: Train custom classifiers to detect proprietary products, logos, brand assets, or industry-specific objects. - type: Integrations data: - name: Amazon S3 description: Process images and videos stored in Amazon S3 buckets directly without downloading content. - name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams description: Analyze live video streams in real-time by integrating with Kinesis Video Streams for streaming analysis. - name: AWS Lambda description: Trigger serverless analysis pipelines by invoking Rekognition from Lambda functions in event-driven architectures. - name: Amazon SNS description: Receive asynchronous notifications when stored video analysis jobs complete via Amazon SNS. - name: AWS IAM description: Control access to Rekognition APIs using AWS Identity and Access Management policies and roles. - name: Amazon CloudWatch description: Monitor Rekognition API usage, latency, and error metrics through CloudWatch dashboards and alarms. - name: AWS Step Functions description: Orchestrate multi-step computer vision workflows using Step Functions to chain Rekognition operations. - name: Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) description: Route low-confidence Rekognition predictions to human reviewers using Amazon Augmented AI for quality control. - 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type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detect-text-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-detectlabelsresponse-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-face-detail-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-get-label-detection-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-get-video-job-result-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-image-only-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-image-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-label-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-list-collections-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-notification-channel-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-recognize-celebrities-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-s3-object-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-start-label-detection-request-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-start-video-job-response-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-rekognition-video-schema.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-bounding-box-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-compare-faces-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-compare-faces-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-create-collection-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-create-collection-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-create-face-liveness-session-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-create-face-liveness-session-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-custom-labels-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-custom-labels-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-faces-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-faces-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detect-text-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-detectlabelsresponse-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-face-detail-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-get-label-detection-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-get-video-job-result-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-image-only-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-image-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-label-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-list-collections-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-notification-channel-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-recognize-celebrities-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-s3-object-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-start-label-detection-request-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-start-video-job-response-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/amazon-rekognition-video-structure.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-bounding-box-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-compare-faces-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-compare-faces-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-create-collection-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-create-collection-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-create-face-liveness-session-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-create-face-liveness-session-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-custom-labels-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-custom-labels-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-faces-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-faces-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-labels-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-moderation-labels-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detect-text-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-detectlabelsresponse-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-face-detail-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-get-face-liveness-session-results-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-get-label-detection-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-get-video-job-result-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-image-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-image-only-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-index-faces-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-label-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-list-collections-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-notification-channel-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-recognize-celebrities-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-s3-object-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-search-faces-by-image-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-start-label-detection-request-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-start-video-job-response-example.json - type: Example url: examples/amazon-rekognition-video-example.json - type: Integrations url: https://aws.amazon.com/partners/ maintainer: name: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com tags: - AWS - Celebrity Recognition - Computer Vision - Content Moderation - Custom Labels - Deep Learning - Face Liveness - Facial Recognition - Image Analysis - Machine Learning - Object Detection - Text Detection - Video Analysis integrations: - name: Partner Programs - name: Resources - name: Success Stories - name: Work with an AWS Partner - name: AWS Marketplace - name: AWS Partner Central - name: Partner Paths - name: co-sell with AWS