
Discover best practices to succeed in the AWS certified machine learning specialty exam, emphasizing hands-on practice, use of official exam guides, and leveraging documentation and Q&A resources.
Configure a valid AWS account with MFA and IAM credentials, and install the AWS CLI. Gain hands-on readiness by ensuring access to S3, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Glue, and Lambda.
Install Git Bash on Windows to run Linux-like commands, enabling Windows users to mirror Linux production environments with commands like cd and displaying environment variables.
Master data engineering on aws by designing data repositories for machine learning, building ingestion pipelines with kinesis and snowball, and transforming data for s3 data lakes and warehouses.
Explore AWS data engineering tools for storage, integration, and visualization, including ETL, data lakes with S3, Glue data catalog, Redshift, and QuickSight dashboards.
Explore Amazon S3 buckets and its storage classes, including standard, intelligent-tiering, one zone, glacier, glacier deep archive, and outpost, with durability, availability, and cost considerations.
Create an Amazon S3 bucket via the AWS management console, choosing a globally unique name in region US East 1. Upload an object and demonstrate making it public.
Install the aws cli v2 and verify installation with aws --version. Configure credentials with iam access keys using aws configure, set region us-east-1 and output json; create a named profile.
Create an S3 bucket with the AWS CLI, upload a file, and configure a lifecycle policy to move objects from standard to infrequent access after 45 days for cost optimization.
Explore how AWS S3 intelligent-tiering moves infrequently accessed data from standard to archive storage for cost savings without impacting performance. Learn to configure and validate 90-day transition to Glacier Archive.
Delete the copied file from the S3 bucket using the AWS S3 remove command, then delete the S3 bucket to complete the cleanup.
Learn how to replicate S3 data for recovery points by enabling versioning, creating an IAM role, and applying a replication policy between source and destination buckets within 15 minutes.
Enforce least-privilege access to Amazon S3, encrypt data at rest and in transit, enable versioning, and monitor with CloudTrail, Macie, GuardDuty, and S3 inventory.
Explain Amazon Kinesis and its four components: video streams, data streams, data firehose, and data analytics, for real-time data ingestion, processing, and analytics, and compare with SQS.
Learn to ingest streaming data using an Amazon Kinesis stream by creating the stream, validating it, putting and retrieving records, and understanding shard basics and cleanup.
Build a Kinesis data stream with provisioned shards and server-side encryption, configure an S3 bucket and three Lambda functions to transfer data from S3 to Kinesis and to two consumers.
Learn to ingest streaming data into an Amazon S3 bucket using Kinesis Data Firehose, creating a delivery stream from a Kinesis data stream, with optional Lambda transformations.
Run a hands-on Kinesis data analytics workflow to ingest data via a demo stream, perform real-time SQL analytics, and deliver JSON results to S3 using Firehose.
Launch and secure an EC2 web server, stream real-time logs through a Kinesis data stream and Firehose, and store them in an S3 bucket.
Explore AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service that discovers, cleanses, transforms, and loads data from 70+ sources into a centralized data catalog and data lake.
Discover metadata and schema for a csv in S3 using AWS Glue crawlers, building a Glue data catalog from the Titanic dataset and validating tables via console and CLI.
Transform data with AWS Glue DataBrew by loading a CSV and converting names to uppercase, then apply formatting, cleaning, and pivot, split, join, and union transformations for S3.
Learn to perform an ETL workflow in AWS by using Glue with S3 as data source, creating a crawler and Glue job to aggregate data and save results to S3.
Explore Amazon Athena, a serverless, fully managed query service that analyzes data directly in S3 using standard SQL, enabling fast ad hoc analyses with pay-per-query pricing.
Learn to query CSV data stored in an S3 bucket with Amazon Athena, configure a data catalog, create a database and table, and run SQL queries directly on the data.
Explore how AWS Batch enables batch management to run thousands of jobs on AWS. Enable dynamic provisioning with Fargate or EC2, priority-based scheduling, GPU support, and integrated monitoring.
Explore AWS Step Functions for serverless orchestration of distributed apps through visual workflows, comparing standard and express workflows with exactly once, at least once, and use cases.
Discover how to create a basic lambda function, deploy it, and orchestrate it with AWS step functions to invoke the lambda from a state machine and run a sample execution.
Create a serverless workflow with AWS step function to orchestrate lambda and other services, manage state, retries, and event-driven inputs, with hands-on DynamoDB and SNS integration.
Explore states in AWS step functions by building a simple workflow with lambda functions to add A and B, check the sum, and wait between cycles.
Learn to author end-to-end machine learning pipelines on AWS Step Functions with Python workflow studio or states language, including training, model creation, endpoint configuration, and deployment.
Advance data preprocessing with a visual, no-code Databrew approach and AWS Step Functions to build an ML pipeline using air quality data to predict New York City CO2 levels.
Review data repositories for machine learning and the implementation of data ingestion and data transformation solutions in domain one data engineering. Preview topics like Elastic MapReduce and invite Q&A feedback.
Explore exploratory data analysis techniques, handle missing values with imputation, address imbalanced data and outliers, and apply PCA and LDA to guide predictive model selection.
Load the cars dataset as a pandas dataframe and explore distributions, data quality, and missing values. Apply log transformation to MSRP and discuss preparation for modeling.
Learn basic data types in machine learning, including qualitative (nominal and ordinal) and quantitative (discrete and continuous), and how to identify input features, labels, and the dependent variable.
Master statistical analysis as a data analysis tool to collect, analyze, and extract meaningful patterns and insights from data, including descriptive, inferential, predictive, prescriptive, exploratory data analysis, and causal analysis.
Explore descriptive statistics and learn how to summarize data using mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation, plus frequency distributions and visualizations like histograms, box plots, and scatter plots.
Identify outliers in a dataset using box plots and IQR (Q1–Q3, 1.5×IQR); observe distributions, detect data entry errors, and support exploratory data analysis.
Acquire data from cloud csv, a local excel file, and a sqlite database, load it into a single dataframe, and merge sources with pandas to prep for eda.
Rearrange columns, remove duplicates in place, then analyze outliers with box plots and the five-number summary to drop outliers.
Perform missing value analysis using pandas tools and missingno visualization, then impute with median for numerical data and mode for categorical data, addressing currency-form price and data entry gaps.
Learn to impute missing values and clean categorical data by fixing typos in product type, rating, and payment mode using function-based transformations.
Learn to transform data for exploratory analysis by converting dates to datetime, cleaning and converting prices to a single currency, and detecting outliers with IQR in Python.
Explore encoding of categorical data for machine learning, distinguishing ordinal from nominal data. Use label encoding for ordinal data and one hot encoding for nominal data (sklearn or pandas get_dummies).
Learn to scale numerical data before modeling to prevent bias from features with different ranges, using standard scalar for z-score normalization and minmax scaler for custom ranges.
Explore exploratory data analysis through visualization of the hr employee attrition dataset, using histograms, plots, swarm and box plots, and joint plots with seaborn and matplotlib.
Balance imbalanced datasets in classification by using undersampling and oversampling, including smote and near miss, demonstrated on a credit card fraud example.
Apply principal component analysis to reduce dimensionality, standardize data, and extract features by projecting into a lower-dimensional subspace using eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Explore linear discriminant analysis, a supervised dimensionality reduction technique that uses both features and the target to maximize class separation across two components, and view its explained variance ratio.
Explore amazon quicksight, a fully managed cloud-based visualization tool that converts unstructured data into actionable intelligence, connects diverse data sources, and delivers fast, serverless analytics with ml insights for anomalies.
Discover Amazon EMR, a cloud big data platform using Spark, Hive, and other open source frameworks with elastic clusters, scalable storage, and serverless options for data processing and ML workloads.
Explore domain three modeling in the AWS machine learning certification, comparing machine learning and deep learning techniques, and understanding why and how models affect data patterns.
Machine learning uses data sets and input-output pairs to train models that predict new data. It learns patterns from data instead of handcrafting rules, as in spam detection.
Explore the three main types of machine learning - supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning - showing how labeled data with X and Y, features, and trial-and-error strategies define each approach.
Explore supervised learning with linear regression, dataset splitting, training and prediction, and evaluation using mean absolute error, mean squared error, root mean squared error, and R2 on the advertising dataset.
Explore regularization in linear regression, including L1, L2, and elastic net, and how squared error loss interacts with penalties, plus core assumptions like linearity and VIF.
Explore logistic regression, contrast with linear regression, and learn how a logistic function creates a binary classification through thresholding, parameter tuning, and gradient descent.
Learn how gradient descent, the core optimization method in machine learning and deep learning, minimizes loss by updating parameters via gradients and learning rate, with a focus on logistic regression.
Implement logistic regression on a bank dataset to predict binary term deposit subscriptions, using one-hot encoding, SMOTE balancing, and recursive feature elimination for top features.
Explore how to evaluate classification models using accuracy, confusion matrix, precision, recall, and F1 score, and compare ROC AUC for binary and multi-class tasks.
Explore the decision tree algorithm, a supervised learning method that splits data through root, internal, and leaf nodes to classify or predict outcomes, using gini or entropy impurity.
Analyze how decision tree algorithms choose splits using entropy and information gain, comparing ID3, C4.5, CART, and loss functions like the Gini impurity index, chi square, and reduction of variance.
Implement a decision tree classifier on the social network ads dataset, scale features, split data, train the model, evaluate with accuracy and F1, visualize the tree, and note overfit.
Explore how overfitting and underfitting affect machine learning models, and learn how k-fold cross-validation, holdout, and leave-one-out strategies help generalize models.
Learn to distinguish parameters from hyperparameters, perform hyperparameter tuning on a decision tree classifier with GridSearchCV and RandomizedSearchCV, and prevent overfitting via cross-validation.
Review domain three modeling topics: framing business problems, supervised vs unsupervised learning, classification and regression, and core evaluation metrics such as ROC AUC, accuracy, and F1.
Explore the k-nearest neighbor algorithm (KNN) for supervised learning, used in classification, regression, imputation, and resampling, emphasizing distance-based prediction, scaling, and memory-based lazy learning.
Explore the support vector machine, including linear and non-linear SVMs, hyperplane with maximum margin and kernel tricks like polynomial, sigmoid, and rbf for classification and regression.
Learn ensemble learning through the wisdom of crowd, using hard and soft voting to fuse multiple classifiers, including random forest, and improve accuracy beyond any single model.
Learn bagging classifiers with bootstrap sampling and aggregation to build ensemble predictions. See how random forest uses multiple decision trees to improve accuracy and reduce overfitting.
Explore boosting in ensemble learning, training models in sequence with weight adjustments that emphasize misclassified data, using Adaboost and gradient boosting to improve predictions.
Explore gradient boosting with XGBoost, including D matrix data preparation and binary classification parameters. Use ROC AUC to evaluate performance, monitor with watch list, and tune hyperparameters to manage overfitting.
Explore unsupervised learning with k-means clustering, measuring internal cohesion and external separation to group data points. Learn to use distance metrics, inertia, elbow plots, and silhouette scores to determine clusters.
Explore hierarchical clustering and dendrograms, covering agglomerative and divisive approaches, and compare complete, single, mean, and centroid linkage using Euclidean distance to form and interpret clusters.
Explore dbscan, a density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise, that finds clusters by local density, handles outliers, and requires no predefined cluster count, including non-spherical shapes.
Explore time series analysis by defining time as the independent variable, identifying trend, seasonality, cyclicity, and irregularity, and using stationarity tests and differencing for forecasting with ARMA models.
Analyze a time series dataset of seaplane passengers using ARIMA, convert non-stationary data to stationary via differencing, estimate p, d, q with auto.arima, fit the model, and forecast future values.
Explore how Amazon Personalize builds a best-in-class recommendation engine with machine learning, enabling personalized experiences, movielens-based demos, and cold-start handling at scale.
Explore deep learning, a subset of machine learning inspired by the brain, using neural networks with input, hidden, and output layers to learn and predict patterns.
Learn the basics of TensorFlow and Keras, build a first neural network with a sequential model, dense layers, flattening, activation functions, and train with loss, optimizer, and metrics.
Explore the intuition of deep learning with a neural network featuring input, hidden, and output layers, sigmoid activation, and gradient descent training via forward and backward passes.
Explore activation functions in deep learning, from sigmoid and tanh to relu variants like leaky relu, selu, and softmax. See how nonlinear transforms shape neural network outputs.
Explore common neural network templates for binary and multi-class classification and regression, detailing input neurons, hidden layers, relu and sigmoid activations, softmax outputs, and loss functions.
Understand batch size, epochs, and iterations in deep learning by detailing forward and backward passes, with a practical example showing how batch size and epochs determine total iterations.
Tune hyperparameters for deep learning by adjusting learning rate, batch size, epochs, and activation functions. Explore hidden layers and units, and how early stopping and vanishing gradients influence training.
discover how vanishing and exploding gradients affect backpropagation in deep neural networks, and explore solutions like Xavier initialization, non-saturating activations, batch normalization, and gradient clipping.
Explore how convolutional neural networks enable computer vision by applying kernels, padding, and strides to extract edges and patterns, then use pooling, flattening, and dense layers for image classification.
Implement a convolutional neural network on the cat dog dataset to build an image classifier. Use image data generator, train/test split, and transfer learning to improve accuracy.
Learn transfer learning for computer vision by reusing pretrained weights on a base model such as ResNet 50 and fine-tuning the top layers with a new classification head.
Explore how feed forward neural networks process text as independent feature vectors, the challenges this poses for learning context, and why recurrent neural networks are needed to remember previous inputs.
Explore how recurrent neural networks process data in sequence, compare 1-to-1, 1-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many architectures, and learn solutions to vanishing and exploding gradients.
Explore how long short-term memory networks overcome long-term dependency challenges in recurrent models using forget, input, and output gates, enabling improved sequence-to-sequence tasks with attention.
Learn how attention mechanism in sequence-to-sequence models lets the decoder focus on relevant encoder hidden states instead of a fixed bottleneck, improving neural machine translation.
Explore transfer learning for natural language data, from unsupervised pre-training and language modeling to domain adaptation and fine-tuning, with transformer-based architectures and practical NLP applications.
Explore the transformer architecture, including encoder and decoder, with multi-head attention, positional encoding, and residual connections that enable parallel processing and powerful language models for natural language processing tasks.
Discover practical machine learning implementation and operations on AWS, focusing on exam-ready topics, infrastructure use, and cloud-based implementation of machine learning models with ongoing updates to stay current.
deploy a trained cat or dog classifier serverlessly with AWS Lambda, converting to TensorFlow Lite, pre-processing image data, and packaging into a Docker image for ECR and API Gateway.
Learn to containerize machine learning apps with Docker by packaging per-application dependencies into images, building Dockerfiles, and running portable containers anywhere.
Learn to containerize a Python ML project with Docker, deploy on AWS Lambda via ECR, and expose it via API gateway using TFLite runtime and Keras image helper.
Explore how CloudWatch monitors applications and infrastructure, uses logs and log groups, sets alarms and automations, visualizes metrics with dashboards, and routes events via EventBridge rules across AWS services.
Explore end-to-end deployment of machine learning models on AWS SageMaker, covering notebook setup, data in S3, training, model artifacts, endpoint deployment, and calling it with Lambda and API Gateway.
Explore AWS SageMaker Jumpstart, which provides pre-trained open-source models and notebooks for rapid transfer learning. Learn to deploy endpoints and use Jumpstart artifacts for machine translation and image classification.
Explore AWS Polly, a text-to-speech service that uses deep learning to convert text into lifelike speech. See neural engine demo with selectable voices and learn how Polly enables speech-enabled applications.
Explore Amazon Transcribe, a speech-to-text service for real-time streaming and high-quality transcription. Configure custom vocabulary, language models, and vocabulary filtering for post-call analytics, transcription jobs, and media search.
Explore AWS Lex for building voice and text chat bots, configuring intents with training data and airline templates, and using Transcribe, SageMaker, and Polly.
Automate model retraining and deployment with AWS SageMaker using Step Functions data science SDK, building a serverless pipeline that trains, validates, and deploys on schedule when accuracy surpasses a threshold.
Understand model and data lineage in machine learning to improve reproducibility as data and models evolve. Identify code, data, and model lineage and how Sagemaker tools enable end-to-end lineage tracking.
Learn how Amazon augmented AI enables human in the loop workflows for Rekognition, Textract outputs, using confidence thresholds or random sampling to review content moderation and document text extraction.
Explore Amazon CodeGuru, an intelligent ML system that profiles performance and reviews code to improve quality and efficiency for Java and Python apps, with profiler and reviewer.
Explore Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Comprehend Medical for natural language processing and text analytics, including named entity recognition, topics, sentiment, syntax, and real-time analysis with custom models.
Explore AWS DeepComposer to hands-on compose music using pre-trained machine learning models, with virtual and physical keyboards, genres from rock to classical, and share tracks via SoundCloud.
Explore AWS DeepLens, a deep learning enabled video camera that runs SageMaker models in real time, enabling object detection and facial recognition.
Explore AWS DeepRacer, a fully autonomous 1/18 scale race car guided by reinforcement learning for hands-on machine learning. Build and push your own models, and compete in the DeepRacer League.
Explore Amazon DevOps Guru, a ML-powered cloud operations service that improves application availability by automatically detecting issues, reducing downtime, and delivering insights for rapid resolution.
Explore Amazon Forecast to perform time series analysis and build accurate forecasting models using machine learning, with historical data and automated ML, the same technology powering Amazon.com.
Explore Amazon Fraud Detector, a fully managed AWS service powered by machine learning that detects online fraud like payment fraud and fake accounts, with data validation and rapid deployment.
Explore Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA eligible AWS service. Store, transform, query, and analyze petabyte-scale health data in the cloud using machine learning.
Explore how Amazon Kendra, an enterprise search service powered by machine learning, builds indexes, connects data sources with connectors, and enables natural language search for sales, support, and knowledge needs.
Amazon Lookout for equipment, metrics and vision helps detect anomalies in sensor data, monitor datasets with detectors, and automate quality inspection with computer vision.
Explore Amazon Monitron, an end-to-end system that monitors equipment, detects abnormal behavior, and reduces unplanned downtime with quick sensor and gateway installation via the Monitron app for rotating equipment.
Leverage AWS panorama to deploy computer vision at the edge, using a machine learning appliance and SDK to add vision to on premise cameras with low latency and data privacy.
Explore Amazon Rekognition, a deep learning analysis service for web or mobile apps that searches and analyzes images and videos. Apply detection, facial analysis, celebrity recognition, and text detection.
Master Amazon Translate, a neural machine translation service offering real-time and batch translation with API access, integration with other services, plus custom terminology and parallel data to tailor translations.
Extract text and data from handwriting and scanned documents with Amazon Textract, going beyond OCR to analyze forms, tables, expenses, and IDs like driver's licenses and passports.
Take as many practice exams to assess your current level and revise weak topics with documentation. Follow the examination guide to meet AWS criteria before the exam.
Demonstrate end-to-end machine learning deployment using the iris dataset: load data, split, scale features, train a decision tree classifier, evaluate, and save the model with joblib.
Deploy a machine learning model end-to-end with a Flask app that loads a saved standard scaler and model, serves iris class predictions (setosa, versicolor, virginica) from space-separated inputs.
Learn to build shareable Python web apps with the Streamlit library, from pip installation to running streamlit run app.py and deploying for free on the cloud.
Explore the NLP pipeline, from data acquisition and text cleaning to text pre-processing, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of text data.
Learn how to use the scrapy library for data extraction in an NLP pipeline, perform web scraping, and store scraped data in a CSV using a scrapy project.
Explore the nltk library, its text preprocessing capabilities like tokenization, stemming, tagging, stopwords removal, and parsing, and learn how bigrams, trigrams, and n-grams capture context.
Learn hands-on tokenization in Google Colab using a library and Punkt, producing tokens and bigrams, trigrams, and n-grams from sample text, with upcoming coverage on pos tagging and stopwords removal.
Tag parts of speech for each word and remove stopwords to clarify context in text data. Use nltk tools like the average perceptron tagger and tokenizers in a hands-on workflow.
Learn stemming and lemmatization for natural language data, compare Porter, Snowball, Lancaster, and regex stemmers, and apply lemmatization to obtain dictionary-valid roots with context for effective preprocessing.
Explore named entity recognition and word sense disambiguation in natural language processing, with Python demonstrations of the Lesk algorithm and tokenization. Learn how methods enable information extraction and text mining.
Master spaCy, a production-ready Python NLP library, covering tokenization, POS tagging, dependency parsing, lemmatization, NER, and text classification. Get started by importing spaCy, loading a model, and processing text.
Explore natural language processing with spaCy in a hands-on Colab session, installing and loading models, tokenization, and building an NLP pipeline including tagger, parser, and named entity recognition.
Explore the components of an NLP pipeline, pre-process text data to reduce feature words, and learn how numerical representation enables upcoming text vectorization for improved model accuracy.
Explore text vectorization and one hot encoding as feature extraction techniques to convert raw text into numerical features and highlight vocabulary-driven sparsity and lost word order.
Explore the bag of words technique for text representation in natural language processing, comparing it with one-hot encoding and outlining its advantages and limitations.
Hands-on bag of words in Python: clean and tokenize text, build BoW representations with unigram, bigram, and trigram features using count vectorizer in scikit-learn.
Master tf-idf by combining term frequency and inverse document frequency to quantify word importance across a document corpus, with practical examples and stopwords handling.
Learn to implement tf-idf, compare it with count vectorizer, and compute term frequency and idf to generate tf-idf scores for information extraction and text classification using python and sklearn.
Convert text data into numerical vectors to capture semantic and syntactic meaning. Explore pre-trained word embeddings and methods like continuous bag of words and skip gram.
Explore how word vectors capture text as fixed-length numerical representations, enabling word embeddings via word2vec and language modeling. Compare vectors using cosine similarity and train embeddings with CBOW or skip-gram.
Explore pre-trained word embeddings based on word2vec, revealing a 3 million word vocabulary with 300 features per word and cosine similarity analyses using gensim.
Explore the skip-gram word embedding architecture and its contrast with cbow, showing how a simple one-hidden-layer neural network predicts context words from a target word using a window size.
Explore the skip-gram model architecture, using one-hot inputs and outputs with a 10,000-word vocabulary, a 300-feature hidden layer, and a softmax output to predict the target word and learn embeddings.
Train a skip gram model from scratch and validate the forward pass on the Stanford Amazon reviews dataset in Google Colab, building vocabulary, training word embeddings with Gensim, and saving the model.
The lecture explains the continuous bag of words (cbow) technique as an alternative to skip-gram in word2vec, using a bag-of-words input and averaging context vectors to predict the center word.
Explore hyperparameters of the skip-gram word embedding model, including subsampling, window size, and negative sampling, to improve training efficiency and produce high-quality embeddings via logistic regression.
Explore the practical differences between cbow and skip-gram, including training samples, window size effects, training time, and where each model excels for rare words and syntactic relationships.
Master inferential statistics by understanding population and sample, parameters versus statistics, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, with key tests like z test, Wilcoxon, signed rank, Mann-Whitney U, and ANOVA.
Explore key terminologies in inferential statistics, including parameter space, sample space, sampling distribution, standard error, and estimation, with point and interval estimation and their relationship to population and samples.
Engage in a hands-on dataset generation to distinguish population from sample, compute mean and variance, and assess sample representativeness for reliable inference.
Explore the three main forms of statistical inference—point estimation, interval estimation, and hypothesis testing—along with estimators, estimates, and bias.
Learn to interpret and construct a confidence interval using the sample statistic and mean (x-bar) to estimate a population parameter, with the confidence level and margin of error.
Load the Boston housing dataset, sample 200, compute the sample mean, then calculate the z critical, margin of error, and 95% confidence interval.
Explore hypothesis testing by defining null and alternate hypotheses, selecting a test statistic, and interpreting p-values and critical values to decide whether to reject the null.
Master z tests for hypothesis testing by comparing the sample mean to an assumed mean with known variance, using the z statistic in a passport processing example.
Perform a z test on a passport processing time dataset in Google Colab, compute the z statistic and p-value, and interpret the null hypothesis using pandas and scipy.
Create a free tier AWS account by entering your root email, setting a password, and providing contact and payment details, while understanding tier limits for services like EC2 and Sagemaker.
Learn to set up MFA on the AWS root account using an authenticator app to securely log in and manage root security settings.
Learn how to create an IAM user, assign administrator access, and sign in using the account alias and console URL, while following best practice to avoid root login.
Install and validate the AWS CLI v2 on macOS or Windows, configure access keys with JSON output, and set the default region to us east 1 for CLI-based service access.
Explore how to assign permissions in IAM, attach policies to users, and create service and execution roles to control access to AWS resources and a cost and usage report.
Understand how to attach deny or allow IAM policies to a user with the AWS policy generator and inline policies, test S3 access, and see how deny takes precedence.
Delete an IAM user by navigating to the service, selecting the user, and confirming deletion; also delete service roles by selecting the role under roles and removing it.
Master transformer architecture fundamentals—encoder-decoder and decoder-only variants—through self-attention, multi-head attention, positional encoding, residual connections, and training tasks like BERT's masked language modeling and GPT-style generation.
Explore enterprise MLOps essentials, bridging data science and DevOps, and automate the ML lifecycle with Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, and SageMaker on AWS.
Prepare for the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (MLS-C01) exam in 2024 with our comprehensive and updated course. Dive deep into machine learning concepts and applications on the AWS platform, equipping yourself with the skills needed to excel in real-world scenarios. Master techniques, data preprocessing, and utilize popular AWS services such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and more.
Our structured learning journey aligns with the exam's domains, ensuring thorough preparation for certification success and practical application of machine learning principles.
Key Skills and Topics Covered:
Choose and justify ML approaches for business problems
Identify and implement AWS services for ML solutions
Design scalable, cost-optimized, reliable, and secure ML solutions
Skillset requirements: ML algorithms intuition, hyperparameter optimization, ML frameworks, model-training, deployment, and operational best practices
Domains and Weightage:
Data Engineering (20%): Create data repositories, implement data ingestion, and transformation solutions using AWS services like Kinesis, EMR, and Glue.
Exploratory Data Analysis (24%): Sanitize and prepare data, perform feature engineering, and analyze/visualize data for ML using techniques such as clustering and descriptive statistics.
Modeling (36%): Frame business problems, select appropriate models, train models, perform hyperparameter optimization, and evaluate ML models using various metrics.
Machine Learning Implementation and Operations (20%): Build ML solutions for performance, availability, scalability, and fault tolerance using AWS services like CloudWatch, SageMaker, and security best practices.
Detailed Learning Objectives:
Data Engineering: Create data repositories, implement data ingestion and transformation solutions using AWS services like Kinesis, EMR, and Glue.
Exploratory Data Analysis: Sanitize and prepare data, perform feature engineering, and analyze/visualize data for ML using techniques such as clustering and descriptive statistics.
Modeling: Frame business problems, select appropriate models, train models, perform hyperparameter optimization, and evaluate ML models using various metrics.
ML Implementation and Operations: Build ML solutions for performance, availability, scalability, and fault tolerance using AWS services like CloudWatch, SageMaker, and security best practices.
Tools, Technologies, and Concepts Covered:
Ingestion/Collection, Processing/ETL, Data analysis/visualization, Model training, Model deployment/inference, Operational
AWS ML application services, Python language for ML, Notebooks/IDEs
AWS Services Covered:
Analytics: Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon QuickSight, etc.
Compute: AWS Batch, Amazon EC2, etc.
Containers: Amazon ECR, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, etc.
Database: AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, etc.
IoT: AWS IoT Greengrass
Machine Learning: Amazon SageMaker, AWS Deep Learning AMIs, Amazon Comprehend, etc.
Management and Governance: AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, etc.
Networking and Content Delivery, Security, Identity, and Compliance: Various AWS services.
Serverless: AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda
Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx
For the learners who are new to AWS, we have also added basic tutorials to get it up and running.
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