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Best AWS SageMaker for Beginners in Machine Learning

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AWS Summit London was held on May 10 at the ExCeL conference center in East London. This was my first time at an AWS conference, and I was impressed by the scale. There must have been at least 10,000 participants and all the lectures I attended were close to capacity. I just had a general idea of the conversations I wanted to get involved, but for some reason, I was drawn to the new AWS product, SageMaker. I had never heard of this until I saw the keynote address with Dr. Werner Vogels of Amazon.com. Many of my friends had studied Machine Learning (ML) at their university, but I did not know anyone who had used it in the industry. In the world of monitoring, there are all sorts of interesting ideas about using ML for predictive analytics, so I wanted to know more about how other ML companies use and how SageMaker can be leveraged by companies that want to start ML. During Dr. Vogels' presentation, he was quick to point out that Amazon.com had used ML for 20 years in its e-comme...