Data sources and ingestion
Records are added to your feature groups through ingestion. Depending on your desired use case, the ingested records may be kept within the feature group or not. This depends on the storage configuration, if your feature group uses the offline or online store. The offline store is used as a historical database, that is typically used for data exploration, machine learning (ML) model training, and batch inference. The online store is used as a real-time lookup of records, that is typically used for ML model serving. For more information on Feature Store concepts and ingestion, see Feature Store concepts.
There are multiple ways to bring your data into Amazon SageMaker Feature Store. Feature Store offers a single API call
for data ingestion called PutRecord that enables you to ingest data in batches
or from streaming sources. You can use Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to engineer features and then ingest your
features into your Feature Store. You can also use Amazon EMR for batch data ingestion through a Spark
connector.
In the following topics we will discuss the difference between
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Stream ingestion
You can use streaming sources such as Kafka or Kinesis as a data source, where records
are extracted from, and directly feed records to the online store for training,
inference or feature creation. Records can be ingested into your feature group by using
the synchronous PutRecord API call. Since this is a synchronous API call it
allows small batches of updates to be pushed in a single API call. This enables you to
maintain high freshness of the feature values and publish values as soon an update is
detected. These are also called streaming features.
Data Wrangler with Feature Store
Data Wrangler is a feature of Studio Classic that provides an end-to-end solution to import, prepare, transform, featurize, and analyze data. Data Wrangler enables you to engineer your features and ingest them into your online or offline store feature groups.
The following instructions exports a Jupyter notebook that contains all of the source code needed to create a Feature Store feature group that adds your features from Data Wrangler to an online or offline store.
The instructions on exporting your Data Wrangler data flow to Feature Store on the console vary depending on whether you enabled enabled Amazon SageMaker Studio or Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic as your default experience.
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Open the Studio console by following the instructions in Launch Amazon SageMaker Studio.
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Choose Data from the left panel, to expand the dropdown list.
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From the dropdown list, choose Data Wrangler.
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If you have an instance of Amazon SageMaker Canvas already running, choose Open Canvas.
If you don't have an instance of SageMaker Canvas running, choose Run in Canvas.
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On the SageMaker Canvas console, choose Data Wrangler in the left navigation pane.
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Choose Data flows to view your data flows.
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Choose + to expand the dropdown list.
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Choose Export data flow to expand the dropdown list.
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Choose Save to SageMaker Feature Store (via JupyterLab Notebook).
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Under Export data flow as notebook, choose one of the following options:
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Download a local copy to download the dataflow to your local machine.
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Export to S3 location to download the dataflow to an Amazon Simple Storage Service location and enter the Amazon S3 location or choose Browse to find your Amazon S3 location.
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Choose Export.
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Open the Studio Classic console by following the instructions in Launch Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic.
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Choose the Home icon (
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Choose Data.
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From the dropdown list, choose Data Wrangler.
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Choose your workflow.
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Choose the Export tab.
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Choose Export Step.
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Choose Feature Store.
After the feature group has been created, you can also select and join data across multiple feature groups to create new engineered features in Data Wrangler and then export your data set to an Amazon S3 bucket.
For more information on how to export to Feature Store, see Export to SageMaker Feature Store.
