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Learn Amazon SageMaker

By : Julien Simon
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Learn Amazon SageMaker

By: Julien Simon

Overview of this book

Amazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale, without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the ML problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by removing the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This book is a comprehensive guide for data scientists and ML developers who want to learn the ins and outs of Amazon SageMaker. You’ll understand how to use various modules of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve the challenges faced in ML. As you progress, you’ll cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and the option for writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. Later, the book will show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch to increase the capabilities of existing models. You’ll also learn to get the models to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you’ll explore how to use Amazon SageMaker Debugger to analyze, detect, and highlight problems to understand the current model state and improve model accuracy. By the end of this Amazon book, you’ll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
4
Section 2: Building and Training Models
11
Section 3: Diving Deeper on Training
14
Section 4: Managing Models in Production

Automating with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions let you define and run workflows based on state machines (https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/). A state machine is a combination of steps, which can be sequential, parallel, or conditional. Each step receives an input from its predecessor, performs an operation, and passes the output to its successor. Step Functions are integrated with many AWS services, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, and SageMaker, and you can easily use them in your workflows.

State machines can be defined using JSON and the Amazon States Language, and you can visualize them in the service console. State machine execution is fully managed, so you don't need to provision any infrastructure to run.

When it comes to SageMaker, Step Functions has a dedicated Python SDK, named the Data Science SDK (https://github.com/aws/aws-step-functions-data-science-sdk-python). In my humble opinion, this is a confusing name, as the SDK has nothing to do with data science...