AWS Machine Learning flowchart a day : Part 1

I am a huge fan of flowcharts and service maps. When presented at the right level of detail, they have ability to simplify your life as an architect/engineer cutting through the noise. Selecting a right service and framework for your machine learning use cases from myriad of options could be one such task. In this multipart blog post series I will attempt to simplify (and demystify) various options offered by AWS ML platform with the help of flowcharts and maps.

AWS ML platform has ever growing services across all three domains; application , platform and infra frameworks. The ML service/algorithm you will use will depend on the type of the dataset you have to work with; i.e. structured and unstructured data (i.e. text, speech, images, videos). The choice of your final algorithm will also depend on the supervised and unsupervised algorithm (i.e for labeled and unlabeled datasets ).

This post focuses on the text dataset type (i.e unstructured data) and available options for the same on the AWS ML platform.

This is still WIP and I will update it as more services are added to the platform. As always your feedback/comments are welcome :)

In next part of this series we will cover flowcharts for Speech and Image/Video datasets.

Happy new year!