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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

Automating with AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation has long been the preferred way to automate infrastructure builds and operations on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation). You could certainly write a book on the topic, but we'll stick to the basics in this section.

The first step in using CloudFormation is to write a template – that is, a JSON or YAML text file describing the resources that you want to build, such as an EC2 instance or an S3 bucket. Resources are available for almost all AWS services, and SageMaker is no exception. If we look at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_SageMaker.html, we see that we can create SageMaker Studio applications, deploy endpoints, and more.

A template can (and should) include parameters and outputs. The former help make templates as generic as possible. The latter provide information that can be used by downstream applications, such as endpoint URLs or bucket names.

Once you&apos...