Technical requirements
In this chapter, we will be tackling more advanced topics and as such, you will need need some hands-on experience in a language such as Python to follow along in more detail. You will also need broader skills in several AWS cloud services that are beyond the scope of this book (such as AWS CloudFormation or Amazon SageMaker).
We highly recommend that you read this chapter while connected to your own AWS account and open the different service consoles 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 section of Chapter 2, An Overview of Amazon Forecast.
The content in this chapter assumes that you have a predictor already trained; if you don't, we recommend that you follow the detailed process presented in Chapter 4, Training a Predictor with AutoML.
This chapter also assumes you have already generated a forecast from a trained predictor; if...