Technical requirements
No hands-on experience in 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 connected to your AWS account and open the Amazon Forecast console to run the different actions on your end.
To create an AWS account and log into the Amazon Forecast console, you can refer to the Technical requirements of Chapter 2, An Overview of Amazon Forecast.
The content in this chapter assumes that you have a predictor already trained and ready to be used to generate new forecasts: if you don't, we recommend that you follow the detailed process explained in Chapter 4, Training a Predictor with AutoML. Once you have a trained predictor, you are ready to generate new predictions.