Technical requirements
No hands-on experience of a language such as Python or R is necessary to follow along with the content from this chapter. However, we highly recommend that you read this chapter while being connected to your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and open the Amazon Forecast console to run the different actions on your end.
To create an AWS account and log in to the Amazon Forecast console, you can refer to the Technical requirements section of Chapter 2, An Overview of Amazon Forecast.
The content in this chapter assumes that you have a dataset already ingested and ready to be used to train a new predictor. If you don't, I recommend that you follow the detailed process detailed in Chapter 3, Creating a Project and Ingesting your Data. You will need the Simple Storage Service (S3) location of your three datasets, which should look like this (replace <YOUR_BUCKET>
with the name of the bucket of your choice):