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Learn Amazon SageMaker - Second Edition

By : Julien Simon
Book Image

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

Using the SageMaker Training Toolkit with scikit-learn

In this example, we're going to build a custom Python container with the SageMaker Training Toolkit. We'll use it to train a scikit-learn model on the Boston Housing dataset, using script mode and the SKLearn estimator.

We need three building blocks:

  • The training script. Since script mode will be available, we can use exactly the same code as in the scikit-learn example from Chapter 7, Extending Machine Learning Services Using Built-In Frameworks.
  • We need a Dockerfile and Docker commands to build our custom container.
  • We also need an SKLearn estimator configured to use our custom container.

Let's take care of the container:

  1. A Dockerfile can get quite complicated. No need for that here! We start from the official Python 3.7 image available on Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/_/python). We install scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, joblib, and the SageMaker Training Toolkit:
    FROM python...