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Machine Learning Engineering on AWS

By : Joshua Arvin Lat
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Machine Learning Engineering on AWS

By: Joshua Arvin Lat

Overview of this book

There is a growing need for professionals with experience in working on machine learning (ML) engineering requirements as well as those with knowledge of automating complex MLOps pipelines in the cloud. This book explores a variety of AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Lake Formation, which ML practitioners can leverage to meet various data engineering and ML engineering requirements in production. This machine learning book covers the essential concepts as well as step-by-step instructions that are designed to help you get a solid understanding of how to manage and secure ML workloads in the cloud. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll discover how to use several container and serverless solutions when training and deploying TensorFlow and PyTorch deep learning models on AWS. You’ll also delve into proven cost optimization techniques as well as data privacy and model privacy preservation strategies in detail as you explore best practices when using each AWS. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to build, scale, and secure your own ML systems and pipelines, which will give you the experience and confidence needed to architect custom solutions using a variety of AWS services for ML engineering requirements.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Machine Learning Engineering on AWS
5
Part 2:Solving Data Engineering and Analysis Requirements
8
Part 3: Diving Deeper with Relevant Model Training and Deployment Solutions
11
Part 4:Securing, Monitoring, and Managing Machine Learning Systems and Environments
14
Part 5:Designing and Building End-to-end MLOps Pipelines

Utilizing Managed Spot Training and Checkpoints

Now that we have a better understanding of how to use the SageMaker Python SDK to train and deploy ML models, let’s proceed with using a few additional options that allow us to reduce costs significantly when running training jobs. In this section, we will utilize the following SageMaker features and capabilities when training a second Image Classification model:

  • Managed Spot Training
  • Checkpointing
  • Incremental Training

In Chapter 2, Deep Learning AMIs, we mentioned that spot instances can be used to reduce the cost of running training jobs. Using spot instances instead of on-demand instances can help reduce the overall cost by up to 70% to 90%. So, why are spot instances cheaper? The downside of using spot instances is that these instances can be interrupted, which will restart the training job from the start. If we were to train our models outside of SageMaker, we would have to prepare our own set of custom...