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Amazon SageMaker Processing
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Amazon SageMaker Processing allows you to run steps for data pre- or post-processing, feature engineering, data validation, or model evaluation workloads on Amazon SageMaker.

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Background
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Amazon SageMaker lets developers and data scientists train and deploy machine learning models. With Amazon SageMaker Processing, you can run processing jobs for data processing steps in your machine learning pipeline. Processing jobs accept data from Amazon S3 as input and store data into Amazon S3 as output.

.. image:: ./amazon_sagemaker_processing_image1.png

Setup
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The fastest way to get started with Amazon SageMaker Processing is by running a Jupyter notebook. You can follow the `Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker`_ guide to start running notebooks on Amazon SageMaker.

.. _Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/gs.html

You can run notebooks on Amazon SageMaker that demonstrate end-to-end examples of using processing jobs to perform data pre-processing, feature engineering and model evaluation steps. See `Learn More`_ at the bottom of this page for more in-depth information.


Data Pre-Processing and Model Evaluation with scikit-learn
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You can run a scikit-learn script to do data processing on SageMaker using the :class:`sagemaker.sklearn.processing.SKLearnProcessor` class.

You first create a ``SKLearnProcessor``

.. code:: python

    from sagemaker.sklearn.processing import SKLearnProcessor

    sklearn_processor = SKLearnProcessor(
        framework_version="0.20.0",
        role="[Your SageMaker-compatible IAM role]",
        instance_type="ml.m5.xlarge",
        instance_count=1,
    )

Then you can run a scikit-learn script ``preprocessing.py`` in a processing job. In this example, our script takes one input from S3 and one command-line argument, processes the data, then splits the data into two datasets for output. When the job is finished, we can retrive the output from S3.

.. code:: python

    from sagemaker.processing import ProcessingInput, ProcessingOutput

    sklearn_processor.run(
        code="preprocessing.py",
        inputs=[
            ProcessingInput(source="s3://your-bucket/path/to/your/data", destination="/opt/ml/processing/input"),
        ],
        outputs=[
            ProcessingOutput(output_name="train_data", source="/opt/ml/processing/train"),
            ProcessingOutput(output_name="test_data", source="/opt/ml/processing/test"),
        ],
        arguments=["--train-test-split-ratio", "0.2"],
    )

    preprocessing_job_description = sklearn_processor.jobs[-1].describe()

For an in-depth look, please see the `Scikit-learn Data Processing and Model Evaluation`_ example notebook.

.. _Scikit-learn Data Processing and Model Evaluation: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/blob/master/sagemaker_processing/scikit_learn_data_processing_and_model_evaluation/scikit_learn_data_processing_and_model_evaluation.ipynb


Data Processing with Spark
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SageMaker provides two classes for customers to run Spark applications: :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.PySparkProcessor` and :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.SparkJarProcessor`


PySparkProcessor
---------------------

You can use the :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.PySparkProcessor` class to run PySpark scripts as processing jobs.

This example shows how you can take an existing PySpark script and run a processing job with the :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.PySparkProcessor` class and the pre-built SageMaker Spark container.

First you need to create a :class:`PySparkProcessor` object

.. code:: python

    from sagemaker.processing import PySparkProcessor, ProcessingInput

    spark_processor = PySparkProcessor(
        base_job_name="sm-spark",
        framework_version="2.4",
        py_version="py37",
        container_version="1",
        role="[Your SageMaker-compatible IAM role]",
        instance_count=2,
        instance_type="ml.c5.xlarge",
        max_runtime_in_seconds=1200,
        image_uri="your-image-uri"
    )

The ``framework_version`` is the spark version where the script will be running.
``py_version`` and ``container_version`` are two new parameters you can specify in the constructor. They give you more flexibility to select the container version to avoid any backward incompatibilities and unnecessary dependency upgrade.

If you just specify the ``framework_version``, Sagemaker will default to a python version and the latest container version. To pin to an exact version of the SageMaker Spark container you need to specify all the three parameters: ``framework_version``, ``py_version`` and ``container_version``.

You can also specify the ``image_uri`` and it will override all the three parameters.

Note that ``command`` option will not be supported on either :class:`PySparkProcessor` or :class:`SparkJarProcessor`. If you want to run the script on your own container, please use :class:`ScriptProcessor` instead.

Then you can run your existing spark script ``preprocessing.py`` in a processing job.

.. code:: python

    spark_processor.run(
        submit_app="preprocess.py",
        submit_py_files=["module.py", "lib.egg"],
        submit_jars=["lib.jar", "lib2.jar"],
        submit_files=["file.txt", "file2.csv"],
        arguments=["s3_input_bucket", bucket,
                   "s3_input_key_prefix", input_prefix,
                   "s3_output_bucket", bucket,
                   "s3_output_key_prefix", input_preprocessed_prefix],
        spark_event_logs_s3_uri="s3://your-bucket/your-prefix/store-spark-events"
    )

``submit_app`` is the local relative path or s3 path of your python script, it's ``preprocess.py`` in this case.

You can also specify any python or jar dependencies or files that your script depends on with ``submit_py_files``, ``submit_jars`` and ``submit_files``.

``submit_py_files`` is a list of .zip, .egg, or .py files to place on the PYTHONPATH for Python apps. ``submit_jars`` is a list of jars to include on the driver and executor classpaths. ``submit_files`` is list of files to be placed in the working directory of each executor. File paths of these files in executors can be accessed via SparkFiles.get(fileName).

Each item in the list can be either s3 path or local path, and if you have dependencies stored both in s3 and locally, you can put all of them in ``submit_py_files``, ``submit_jars``, and ``submit_files``

Just like using the ScriptProcessor, you can pass any arguments to your script by specifying ``arguments`` parameter. In this example, four arguments are passed to the script to get and upload data from/to s3.

To support Spark history server, you can specify the parameter ``spark_event_logs_s3_uri`` when you invoke run() method to continuously upload spark events to s3. Note that the performance will be slightly impacted if you decide to publish spark event to s3.

Spark History Server
---------------------

While script is running, or after script has run, you can view spark UI by running history server locally or in the notebook. By default, the s3 URI you provided in previous ``run()`` method will be used as spark event source, but you can also specify a different URI. Last but not the least, you can terminate the history server with ``terminate_history_server()``. Note that only one history server process will be running at a time.

Here's an example to start and terminate history server

.. code:: python

    spark_processor.start_history_server()
    spark_processor.terminate_history_server()

You don't always have to run the script first to start history server, you can also specify the s3 URI with spark event logs stored. For example

.. code:: python

    spark_processor.start_history_server(spark_event_logs_s3_uri="s3://your-bucket/your-prefix/store-spark-events")

To successfully run the history server, first you need to make sure ``docker`` is installed in your machine. Then you need to configure your aws credentials with S3 read permission. Last but not the least, you need to either invoke ``run()`` method with ``spark_event_logs_s3_uri`` first, or specify the ``spark_event_logs_s3_uri`` in ``start_history_server()`` method, otherwise it will fail.

SparkJarProcessor
---------------------

Supposed that you have the jar file "preprocessing.jar" stored in the same directory as you are now, and the java package is ``com.path.to.your.class.PreProcessing.java``
Here's an example of using PySparkProcessor.

.. code:: python

    spark = SparkJarProcessor(
        base_job_name="sm-spark-java",
        image_uri=beta_image_uri,
        role=role,
        instance_count=2,
        instance_type="ml.c5.xlarge",
        max_runtime_in_seconds=1200,
    )

    spark.run(
        submit_app="preprocessing.jar",
        submit_class="com.amazonaws.sagemaker.spark.test.HelloJavaSparkApp",
        arguments=["--input", input_s3_uri, "--output", output_s3_uri]
    )

:class:`SparkJarProcessor` is very similar to :class:`PySparkProcessor` except that the ``run()`` method takes only jar file path, configured by ``submit_app`` parameter, and ``submit_class`` parameter, which is equivalent to "--class" option for "spark-submit" command.

Configuration Override
----------------------

Overriding Spark configuration is crucial for a number of tasks such as tuning your Spark application or configuring the hive metastore. Using our Python SDK, you can easily override Spark/Hive/Hadoop configuration.

An example usage would be overriding Spark executor memory/cores as demonstrated in the following code snippet:

.. code:: python

    spark_processor = PySparkProcessor(
        base_job_name="sm-spark",
        image_uri=beta_image_uri,
        role=role,
        instance_count=2,
        instance_type="ml.c5.xlarge",
        max_runtime_in_seconds=1200,
    )

    configuration = [{
      "Classification": "spark-defaults",
      "Properties": {"spark.executor.memory": "2g", "spark.executor.cores": "1"},
    }]

    spark_processor.run(
        submit_app="./code/preprocess.py",
        arguments=["s3_input_bucket", bucket,
                   "s3_input_key_prefix", input_prefix_abalone,
                   "s3_output_bucket", bucket,
                   "s3_output_key_prefix", input_preprocessed_prefix_abalone],
        configuration=configuration,
        logs=False
    )

For an in-depth look of how to write your configuration, please see `Amazon EMR Configuring Applications`_ document.

.. _Amazon EMR Configuring Applications: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-configure-apps.html

For an in-depth look, please see the `Feature Transformation with Spark`_ example notebook.

.. _Feature Transformation with Spark: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/blob/master/sagemaker_processing/feature_transformation_with_sagemaker_processing/feature_transformation_with_sagemaker_processing.ipynb


Learn More
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Processing class documentation
------------------------------

- :class:`sagemaker.processing.Processor`
- :class:`sagemaker.processing.ScriptProcessor`
- :class:`sagemaker.sklearn.processing.SKLearnProcessor`
- :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.PySparkProcessor`
- :class:`sagemaker.spark.processing.SparkJarProcessor`
- :class:`sagemaker.processing.ProcessingInput`
- :class:`sagemaker.processing.ProcessingOutput`
- :class:`sagemaker.processing.ProcessingJob`


Further documentation
---------------------

- `Processing class documentation <https://sagemaker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/processing.html>`_
- `AWS Documentation <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/processing-job.html>`_
- `AWS Notebook examples <https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/tree/master/sagemaker_processing>`_
- `Processing API documentation <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/API_CreateProcessingJob.html>`_
- `Processing container specification <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/build-your-own-processing-container.html>`_