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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By : Julien Simon
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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By: Julien Simon

Overview of this book

Amazon SageMaker enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale without managing any infrastructure. It helps you focus on the machine learning problem at hand and deploy high-quality models by eliminating the heavy lifting typically involved in each step of the ML process. This second edition will help data scientists and ML developers to explore new features such as SageMaker Data Wrangler, Pipelines, Clarify, Feature Store, and much more. You'll start by learning how to use various capabilities of SageMaker as a single toolset to solve ML challenges and progress to cover features such as AutoML, built-in algorithms and frameworks, and writing your own code and algorithms to build ML models. The book will then show you how to integrate Amazon SageMaker with popular deep learning libraries, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, to extend the capabilities of existing models. You'll also see how automating your workflows can help you get to production faster with minimum effort and at a lower cost. Finally, you'll explore SageMaker Debugger and SageMaker Model Monitor to detect quality issues in training and production. By the end of this Amazon book, you'll be able to use Amazon SageMaker on the full spectrum of ML workflows, from experimentation, training, and monitoring to scaling, deployment, and automation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
4
Section 2: Building and Training Models
11
Section 3: Diving Deeper into Training
14
Section 4: Managing Models in Production

Understanding how SageMaker invokes your code

When we worked with built-in algorithms and frameworks, we didn't pay much attention to how SageMaker actually invoked the training and deployment code. After all, that's what "built-in" means: grab what you need off the shelf and get to work.

Of course, things are different if we want to use our own custom code and containers. We need to understand how they interface with SageMaker so that we implement them exactly right.

In this section, we'll discuss this interface in detail. Let's start with the file layout.

Understanding the file layout inside a SageMaker container

To make our life simpler, SageMaker estimators automatically copy hyperparameters and input data inside training containers. Likewise, they automatically copy the trained model (and any checkpoints) from the container to S3. At deployment time, they do the reverse operation, copying the model from S3 into the container.

As you...