AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for Apache Parquet file format

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides support for the Apache Parquet file format. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance. This new feature allows the creation of SageMaker Autopilot experiments with files stored in the Apache Parquet file format. 

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