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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

Discovering Amazon SageMaker Autopilot

Added to Amazon SageMaker in late 2019, Amazon SageMaker Autopilot is an AutoML capability that takes care of all the machine learning steps for you. You only need to upload a columnar dataset to an Amazon S3 bucket and define the column you want the model to learn (the target attribute). Then, you simply launch an Autopilot job, with either a few clicks in the SageMaker Studio GUI or a couple of lines of code with the SageMaker SDK.

The simplicity of SageMaker Autopilot doesn't come at the expense of transparency and control. You can see how your models are built, and you can keep experimenting to refine results. In that respect, SageMaker Autopilot should appeal to new and seasoned practitioners alike.

In this section, you'll learn about the different steps of a SageMaker Autopilot job and how they contribute to delivering high-quality models:

  • Analyzing data
  • Feature engineering
  • Model tuning

Let's start...