Appendix A. Signing up for Amazon AWS
AWS is Amazon’s cloud service. At the time of writing this book, it has a larger share of the cloud service market than either Microsoft or Google, its two biggest competitors.
AWS consists of a large number of services ranging from servers to storage to specialized machine learning applications for text and images. In fact, one of the most difficult aspects of using a cloud service is understanding what each of the components does. While you are encouraged to explore the breadth of AWS services, for this book, we are only going to use two of them: S3 (AWS’s file storage service) and SageMaker (AWS’s machine learning platform).
This appendix takes you through setting up an AWS account, appendix B takes ...