Build an intelligent photo search using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Bedrock

Managing large photo collections presents significant challenges for organizations and individuals. Traditional approaches rely on manual tagging, basic metadata, and folder-based organization, which can become impractical when dealing with thousands of images containing multiple people and complex relationships. Intelligent photo search systems address these challenges by combining computer vision, graph databases, and natural language processing to transform how we discover and organize visual content. These systems capture not just who and what appears in photos, but the complex relationships and contexts that make them meaningful, enabling natural language queries and semantic discovery.

In this post, we show you how to build a comprehensive photo search system using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that integrates Amazon Rekognition for face and object detection, Amazon Neptune for relationship mapping, and Amazon Bedrock for AI-powered captioning. We demonstrate how these services work together to create a system that understands natural language queries ...