Import data into Canvas

Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports importing tabular, image, and document data. You can import data from both local and external data sources into Canvas. Use the datasets that you import to build models and make predictions for other datasets.

Each use case for which you can build a custom model accepts different types of input. For example, if you want to build a single-label image classification model, then you should import image data. For more information about the different model types and the data they accept, see Build a custom model. You can import data and build custom models in SageMaker Canvas for the following data types:

You can import data into Canvas from the following data sources:

For a full list of data sources from which you can import, see the following table:

For instructions on how to import data and information regarding input data requirements, such as the maximum file size for images, see Create a dataset.

Canvas also provides several sample datasets in your application to help you get started. To learn more about the SageMaker-provided sample datasets you can experiment with, see Use sample datasets.

After you import a dataset into Canvas, you can update the dataset at any time. You can do a manual update or you can set up a schedule for automatic dataset updates. For more information, see Update a dataset.

For more information specific to each dataset type, see the following sections:

Tabular

To import data from an external data source (such as a Snowflake database or a SaaS platform), you must authenticate and connect to the data source in the Canvas application. For more information, see Connect to data sources.

After creating datasets in Canvas, you can join multiple datasets into a single dataset. Joining datasets is only supported for tabular datasets. As long as your data is arranged into tables, you can join datasets from various sources, such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, or Snowflake. For information about joining datasets, see Join data that you've imported into SageMaker Canvas.

Image

For information about how to edit an image dataset and perform tasks such as assigning or reassigning labels, adding images, or deleting images, see Edit an image dataset.