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Accelerate Deep Learning Workloads with Amazon SageMaker

By : Vadim Dabravolski
Book Image

Accelerate Deep Learning Workloads with Amazon SageMaker

By: Vadim Dabravolski

Overview of this book

Over the past 10 years, deep learning has grown from being an academic research field to seeing wide-scale adoption across multiple industries. Deep learning models demonstrate excellent results on a wide range of practical tasks, underpinning emerging fields such as virtual assistants, autonomous driving, and robotics. In this book, you will learn about the practical aspects of designing, building, and optimizing deep learning workloads on Amazon SageMaker. The book also provides end-to-end implementation examples for popular deep-learning tasks, such as computer vision and natural language processing. You will begin by exploring key Amazon SageMaker capabilities in the context of deep learning. Then, you will explore in detail the theoretical and practical aspects of training and hosting your deep learning models on Amazon SageMaker. You will learn how to train and serve deep learning models using popular open-source frameworks and understand the hardware and software options available for you on Amazon SageMaker. The book also covers various optimizations technique to improve the performance and cost characteristics of your deep learning workloads. By the end of this book, you will be fluent in the software and hardware aspects of running deep learning workloads using Amazon SageMaker.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Deep Learning on Amazon SageMaker
6
Part 2: Building and Training Deep Learning Models
10
Part 3: Serving Deep Learning Models

Selecting storage solutions for ML datasets

AWS Cloud provides a wide range of storage solutions that can be used to store inference and training data. When choosing an optimal storage solution, you may consider the following factors:

  • Data volume and velocity
  • Data types and associated metadata
  • Consumption patterns
  • Backup and retention requirements
  • Security and audit requirements
  • Integration capabilities
  • Price to store, write, and read data

Carefully analyzing your specific requirements may suggest the right solution for your use case. It’s also typical to combine several storage solutions for different stages of your data life cycle. For instance, you could store data used for inference consumption with lower latency requirements in faster but more expensive storage; then, you could move the data to cheaper and slower storage solutions for training purposes and long-term retention.

There are several types of common storage types with...