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Automated Machine Learning on AWS

By : Trenton Potgieter
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Automated Machine Learning on AWS

By: Trenton Potgieter

Overview of this book

AWS provides a wide range of solutions to help automate a machine learning workflow with just a few lines of code. With this practical book, you'll learn how to automate a machine learning pipeline using the various AWS services. Automated Machine Learning on AWS begins with a quick overview of what the machine learning pipeline/process looks like and highlights the typical challenges that you may face when building a pipeline. Throughout the book, you'll become well versed with various AWS solutions such as Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, AutoGluon, and AWS Step Functions to automate an end-to-end ML process with the help of hands-on examples. The book will show you how to build, monitor, and execute a CI/CD pipeline for the ML process and how the various CI/CD services within AWS can be applied to a use case with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). You'll understand what a data-centric ML process is by working with the Amazon Managed Services for Apache Airflow and then build a managed Airflow environment. You'll also cover the key success criteria for an MLSDLC implementation and the process of creating a self-mutating CI/CD pipeline using AWS CDK from the perspective of the platform engineering team. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to effectively automate a complete machine learning pipeline and deploy it to production.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of the Automated Machine Learning Process and AutoML on AWS
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Section 2: Automating the Machine Learning Process with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
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Section 3: Optimizing a Source Code-Centric Approach to Automated Machine Learning
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Section 4: Optimizing a Data-Centric Approach to Automated Machine Learning
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Section 5: Automating the End-to-End Production Application on AWS

Summary

This chapter introduced you to some of AWS's AI and ML capabilities, specifically Amazon SageMaker's. You saw how to interact with the service via the SageMaker Studio UI and the SageMaker SDK. Using hands-on examples, you learned how Autopilot's implementation of the AutoML methodology addresses not only the two challenges imposed by the typical ML process but also the overall criteria for automation. Particularly, how using Autopilot ensures that the ML process is reliable and streamlined. The only task required to be done by the ML practitioner is to upload the raw data to Amazon S3.

This chapter also highlights an important aspect of the AutoML methodology. While the AutoML process is repeatable in the sense that it will always produce an optimized model, once you have the model in production, there is no real need to recreate it, unless, of course, the business use case changes. Nevertheless, Autopilot creates a solid foundation to help an ML practitioner...