Category: Amazon SageMaker

Imagine you can see the future—to know how many customers will order your product months ahead of time so you can make adequate provisions, or to know how many of your employees will leave your organization several months in advance so you can take preemptive actions to encourage staff retention. For an organization that sees […]

This post outlines the approach taken by Intuit, though it is important to remember that there are many ways to build a data lake (for example, AWS Lake Formation). We’ll cover the technologies and processes involved in creating the Intuit Data Lake at a high level, including the overall structure and the automation used in provisioning accounts and resources. Watch this space in the future for more detailed blog posts on specific aspects of the system, from the other teams and engineers who worked together to build the Intuit Data Lake.

I’ll describe how to read the DynamoDB backup file format in Data Pipeline, how to convert the objects in S3 to a CSV format that Amazon ML can read, and I’ll show you how to schedule regular exports and transformations using Data Pipeline.