To get the most out of this book
To get the most out of this book, you must have some basic knowledge about what time series data is and how it can relate to various business problems (sales or demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, and so on). You must also have an understanding of what an anomaly is when dealing with time series data.
More generally, having a high-level understanding of what cloud computing is and how you can leverage cloud services to solve your daily business problems is a good starting point.
To access the cloud services described in this book, you will need an AWS account. Account creation is covered in the Technical requirements section of Chapter 2, An Overview of Amazon Forecast.
If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.