My notes (and rudimentary guide) from a research spike that delved into the Google Vision API, AWS API Gateway and Lambda, prototyping a "serverless" API endpoint that returns sentiments expressed by faces in an image.
Google's been rockin' their cloud offerings hard lately. Among their latest releases is the Cloud Vision API (in beta), a service that analyzes the content of an image; detecting things like words, phrases, objects, faces and their emotions. Let's prototype a "serverless" face sentiments endpoint using only the Vision API, AWS API Gateway and a Lambda function.
A quick note on Cloud Vision API pricing. As of this writing, the free tier for face detection is <1000/mo. This app can easily exceed this limit. To give you an idea of this, so far I've used 1103 face detection operations