Using AI and neural networks to automatically translate text or speech from one language to another. Like having a multilingual friend who can instantly convert conversations between languages — except it's powered by deep learning models trained on billions of translated sentences.
A global SaaS company integrates Amazon Translate and Google Cloud Translation API into their support platform to automatically translate customer tickets from 40+ languages into English for their support team, and then translate responses back — reducing translation costs by 90% compared to human translators while maintaining 95% accuracy.
All four are managed machine translation services accessed via APIs/SDKs. They translate text (and in some cases documents) between languages, handle language detection, and are typically priced per character. Differences are mainly in supported languages, customization options, document formats, latency, and how they integrate with each cloud’s broader AI and security tooling.