For me, the most exciting aspect of this product is that they don't require attribution[1]. All the other translation services I looked at[2] required the service's name and/or logo to be part of the UI where the call to the translation service is triggered or where translated text is shown. That makes it a non-starter for many use-cases where you don't want to pollute your product with free ad space for someone else (even though you're already paying for the service!)

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/faqs/

[2]: Google, Microsoft, Yandex

Apple is falling further behind in this AI race...

I was interested to try this out, but for being a release of something and posted on a company's own blog, it contains a small amount (none) of links to the service itself...

Searching for "Amazon Translate" doesn't give me any hints either (neither does searching for "translate" in the AWS console). Anyone got a link?

We push the blog posts out as soon as the announcement is made, and then go back and add links later.

I found this[1]. Appears to be an invite-only preview for now; waiting for my application to be processed.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/translate/

Every once in a while Amazon must pay a shitload of money to take over the front page of HN. Seriously. At the time of this writing over 25% of the first 60 items on the front page of HN are about official Amazon services and redirect directly to Amazon's websites.

Or perhaps it's because the AWS re:INVENT 2017 conference is happening now and people are submitting the news as it is announced?

Excuse me for not jerking off in public over a trillion dollar company who's just smart enough to offer Cloud services you would offer yourself if you weren't so lazy.

It's because of the re:Invent conference and all their announcements.