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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

Building a cost optimization checklist

You should constantly pay attention to cost, even in the early stages of your machine learning project. Even if you're not paying the AWS bill, someone is, and I'm sure you'll quite quickly find out who that person is if you spend too much.

Regularly going through the following checklist will help you spend as little as possible, get the most machine learning-happy bang for your buck, and hopefully keep the finance team off your back!

Optimizing costs for data preparation

With so much focus on optimizing training and deployment, it's easy to overlook data preparation. Yet, this critical piece of the machine learning workflow can incur very significant costs.

Tip #1

Resist the urge to build ad hoc ETL tools running on instance-based services.

Obviously, your workflows will require data to be processed in a custom fashion, such as applying domain-specific feature engineering. Working with a managed service such...