Machine Learning for Business

C.1 Setting up

To begin, you need to set your AWS region to a region provided by SageMaker. figure C.1 shows the dropdown menu you use to select an AWS region to deploy SageMaker into. Set this region to US East (N. Virginia).

Figure C.1. Select the US East AWS region to deploy SageMaker into.

The SageMaker interface lets you work with four main components:

• Dashboard—Your SageMaker home
• Notebook instances—An EC2 server that hosts your notebook
• Models—The machine learning models that you create in the Jupyter notebook
• Endpoints—An EC2 server that hosts your model and allows you to make predictions

First, you’ll set up SageMaker to work ...