Deep Learning and the Game of Go

Appendix D. Training and deploying bots by using Amazon Web Services

In this appendix, you’re going to learn how to use the cloud service Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build and deploy your deep-learning models. Knowing how to use a cloud service and hosting models is a useful skill in general, not only for this Go bot use case. You’ll learn the following skills:

• Setting up a virtual server with AWS to train deep-learning models
• Running deep-learning experiments in the cloud
• Deploying a Go bot with a web interface on a server to share with others

Although as of this writing AWS is the largest cloud provider in the world and provides many benefits, we could’ve chosen many other cloud services for this appendix. Because the big cloud providers ...