As artificial intelligence and big data have become a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, cloud-based machine learning services are part of a rising billion-dollar industry. Among the several services currently available on the market, Amazon Machine Learning stands out for its simplicity. Amazon Machine Learning was launched in April 2015 with a clear goal of lowering the barrier to predictive analytics by offering a service accessible to companies without the need for highly skilled technical resources.
This introductory chapter is a general presentation of the Amazon Machine Learning service and the types of predictive analytics problems it can solve. The Amazon Machine Learning ...