General info

This is a one-day training course.Select the desired start date at the top right of the screen for practical information regarding the training (location, price, registration, etc.).

Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn about AWS’s deep learning solutions, including scenarios where deep learning makes sense and how deep learning works. You’ll learn how to run deep learning models on the cloud using Amazon SageMaker and the MXNet framework. You’ll also learn to deploy your deep learning models using services like AWS Lambda while designing intelligent systems on AWS.

Who should attend this training

This course is intended for:

• Developers who are responsible for developing deep learning applications
• Developers who want to understand the concepts behind deep learning and how to implement a deep learning solution on AWS Cloud

Course Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Define machine learning (ML) and deep learning
• Identify the concepts in a deep learning ecosystem
• Use Amazon SageMaker and the MXNet programming framework for deep learning workloads
• Fit AWS solutions for deep learning deployments

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have a basic understanding of:

• ML processes
• AWS core services like Amazon EC2 and knowledge of AWS SDK
• A scripting language like Python

Course Content

Module 1: Machine learning overview

• A brief history of AI, ML, and DL
• The business importance of ML
• Common challenges in ML
• Different types of ML problems and tasks
• AI on AWS

• Introduction to DL
• The DL concepts
• A summary of how to train DL models on AWS
• Introduction to Amazon SageMaker
• Hands-on lab: Spinning up an Amazon SageMaker notebook instance and running a multi-layer perceptron neural network model

• The motivation for and benefits of using MXNet and Gluon
• Important terms and APIs used in MXNet
• Convolutional neural networks (CNN) architecture
• Hands-on lab: Training a CNN on a CIFAR-10 dataset

• AWS services for deploying DL models (AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Greengrass, Amazon ECS, AWS Elastic Beanstalk)
• Introduction to AWS AI services that are based on DL (Amazon Polly, Amazon Lex, Amazon Rekognition)
• Hands-on lab: Deploying a trained model for prediction on AWS Lambda