# Amazon Comprehend

by [Amazon Web Services](/organizations/amazon-ses/)

- **ID:** `192439c8-e5af-4aa2-9995-18a85f48ec33`
- **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/192439c8-e5af-4aa2-9995-18a85f48ec33/
- **Slug:** amazon-comprehend
- **Product website:** https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/
- **Documentation:** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/comprehend/latest/dg/what-is.html
- **Pricing:** https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/pricing/
- **Organization website:** https://aws.amazon.com
- **Categories:** [PII Detection & Redaction](/categories/pii-detection-redaction/), [Text Analytics / NLP API](/categories/text-analytics-nlp-api/)

## Description

Natural language processing service with APIs for detecting personal information and batch jobs for redacting it from text.

## AI-native score: Unrated

Research coverage is 38/100. An AI-native grade requires 40/100. The provisional breakdown below shows the AI-native signals recorded so far. The AI-native score measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how coverage and the grade are computed.

| Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Integration | Yes | 2/10 | 35% | 35% | 7.0 |
| Trust | Yes | 1/6 | 30% | 30% | 5.0 |
| Portability | Yes | 4/4 | 20% | 20% | 20.0 |
| Security | Yes | 2/4 | 15% | 15% | 7.5 |

- **Integration signals:** Command-line interface (+1); SDK / developer kit (+1)
- **Trust signals:** No generative AI training (available, +1)
- **Portability signals:** Data export (partial, +1); Data import (partial, +1); Standard protocol access (+1); No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1)
- **Security signals:** MFA available (+1); Access controls — RBAC / ABAC (+1)

## Trust & Data Policy

- **Multi-factor authentication:** ✓ Available
- **No generative AI training:** ○ Available
- **Data export:** ○ Partial
- **Data import:** ○ Partial
- **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes
- **No proprietary-SDK lock-in:** ✓ Yes
- **Self-hostable:** – No
- **Not yet researched:** llms.txt, WebMCP, Headless signup, Trust center, Zero data retention, Hard budget caps, Sandbox environment, Open standards, Documented provider swap, Open source

## Confirmed absences

These decision fields were researched and confirmed absent — not available based on current evidence, until contrary information supersedes the finding. Each carries the check performed, the page checked, and the date, so you can act on the negative without repeating the research. A label-scoped absence applies only to its label (e.g. no SOC 2 does not mean no certifications).

- **Self-hostable** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-13. Checked the service pricing and deployment options for a customer-run deployment. Pricing documents managed Comprehend analysis jobs and inference endpoints, with no self-hosted deployment offering listed. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/pricing/

## Security & Compliance

**Compliance certifications:** Not yet researched.
- **Access controls:** Role-Based Access Control

## Capabilities

- **Named entity recognition** — Identify named entities and their types in unstructured text.
- **Text sentiment analysis** — Analyze positive, negative or neutral sentiment in text.

## Jobs To Be Done

- **Detect and redact personal data** — Identify personally identifiable information in text and remove or mask it before downstream processing.
- **Extract entities and sentiment from text** — Identify named entities and analyze sentiment in unstructured text for an application.

## Offers

**Pricing page:** https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/pricing/

No offers listed.

## Reviews

No approved reviews yet.

## Benchmarks

No benchmarks listed.

## Documentation

The primary documentation link is at the top of this page. No other documentation links listed.

## API Specs

Not yet researched.

## MCP Servers

Not yet researched.

## A2A Servers

Not yet researched.

## Native Connectors

Not yet researched.

## Command-Line Interfaces

- [AWS CLI for Amazon Comprehend](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/comprehend/) (`aws-comprehend`)

## Developer Kits

- [Boto3 Amazon Comprehend Client](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/boto3/latest/reference/services/comprehend.html) — Languages: Python

## Agent Skills

Not yet researched.
## Other products from Amazon Web Services

- [Amazon SES](/organizations/amazon-ses/products/amazon-ses/) — Unrated.


## Related products

- [Cloud Natural Language](/organizations/google/products/cloud-natural-language/) by Google — Unrated. Same job: Extract entities and sentiment from text (not assessed).
- [Azure Language in Foundry Tools](/organizations/microsoft/products/azure-language/) by Microsoft — Unrated. Same job: Extract entities and sentiment from text (not assessed).
- [Presidio](/organizations/data-privacy-stack/products/presidio/) by Data Privacy Stack — Unrated. Same job: Detect and redact personal data (not assessed).
- [OpenAI Privacy Filter](/organizations/openai/products/openai-privacy-filter/) by OpenAI — Unrated. Same job: Detect and redact personal data (not assessed).
- [Limina](/organizations/private-ai/products/limina/) by Private AI — Unrated. Same job: Detect and redact personal data (not assessed).


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