Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service from Amazon Web Services that converts text and documents between languages through an API. It handles real-time requests and large batch jobs with a single call, supports 75 languages for standard text, and lets you define brand names, model names and other terms so output follows your vocabulary. Active Custom Translation adapts results from parallel data examples without building your own model. Pricing is pay-as-you-go at $15.00 per million characters for standard text and batch document translation. New accounts get 2 million characters per month free for 12 months under the AWS Free Tier.
It is built for developers and product teams that need translation inside their applications, plus companies localizing content for global customers. Support teams, community platforms and social products can add multilingual features without training models, and analysts can run text analysis across languages.
Typical scenarios include translating user-generated content such as profile descriptions, comments and feed stories as it arrives, adding real-time translation to chat, email, helpdesk and ticketing systems so an English-speaking agent can reply to customers in other languages, and analyzing sentiment toward a brand in multilingual online conversations. Batch translation processes whole folders of documents stored in Amazon S3, including Txt, HTML, DOCx, PPTx, XLSx and Xliff files. Real-time document translation keeps source formatting for Txt, HTML and DOCx files. Because pricing depends only on characters processed, costs scale with usage, and the AWS Pricing Calculator can estimate a monthly bill for an architecture before launch. Real-time translation of text and HTML documents is charged at the same per-character rate but has no free tier.
