Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation uses managed APIs and machine learning to automate image and video moderation. It identifies categories such as explicit or suggestive material, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, hate symbols, gambling and disturbing content. Results include labels and confidence scores, plus timestamps for video, which can support rules organized through a hierarchical taxonomy. For image analysis, customers can train a Custom Moderation adapter with as few as 20 annotated images. Low-confidence results can be sent to Amazon Augmented AI for review by internal teams or third-party reviewers. For stored video, StartContentModeration analyzes footage in an Amazon S3 bucket and publishes completion status to an Amazon SNS topic. AWS bills according to images or video duration processed, with no minimum fee or upfront commitment; the listed starting price is $0.01. A Free Tier is available for 12 months from account creation. Images and videos may be stored and used to improve the service unless customers opt out; stored content is encrypted at rest using AWS KMS.
Who it is for
It suits organizations moderating images or video in social media, gaming, ecommerce, advertising, and media and entertainment. Teams needing custom image rules or a human review path for uncertain results may also find its options relevant.
What is good
- Moderates images and video through managed APIs.
- Detects a range of listed content categories.
- Custom image adapter training starts with 20 annotated images.
- Low-confidence predictions can go to human review.
- No minimum fees or upfront commitments.
What to know first
- Text and audio moderation are not offered.
- Content may be retained for service improvement unless customers opt out.
- Free Tier lasts 12 months from account creation.
Verdict
Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation combines automated image and video analysis with custom adapters and optional human review. Consider its data-handling terms and the absence of text and audio moderation when assessing fit.
Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation plans and pricing
All plansCompared on AI image recognition software
- Free plan
- No
- Text moderation
- No
- Image moderation
- Yes
- Audio moderation
- No
- Video moderation
- Yes
- Custom policies
- Yes
- Human review workflow
- Yes
- Deployment options
- cloud
