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Create and manage Amazon SageMaker jobs with Step Functions

Learn how to use Step Functions to create and manage jobs on SageMaker. This page lists the supported SageMaker API actions and provides example Task states to create SageMaker transform, training, labeling, and processing jobs.

To learn about integrating with Amazon services in Step Functions, see Integrating services and Passing parameters to a service API in Step Functions.

Key features of Optimized SageMaker integration

Supported SageMaker APIs

SageMaker Transform Job Example

The following includes a Task state that creates an Amazon SageMaker transform job, specifying the Amazon S3 location for DataSource and TransformOutput.

{
"SageMaker CreateTransformJob": {
  "Type": "Task",
  "Resource": "arn:aws:states:::sagemaker:createTransformJob.sync",
  "Parameters": {
    "ModelName": "SageMakerCreateTransformJobModel-9iFBKsYti9vr",
    "TransformInput": {
      "CompressionType": "None",
      "ContentType": "text/csv",
      "DataSource": {
        "S3DataSource": {
          "S3DataType": "S3Prefix",
          "S3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-source-bucket1/TransformJobDataInput.txt"
        }
      }
    },
    "TransformOutput": {
      "S3OutputPath": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-source-bucket1/TransformJobOutputPath"
    },
    "TransformResources": {
      "InstanceCount": 1,
      "InstanceType": "ml.m4.xlarge"
    },
    "TransformJobName": "sfn-binary-classification-prediction"
  },
  "Next": "ValidateOutput"
},

SageMaker Training Job Example

The following includes a Task state that creates an Amazon SageMaker training job.

{  
   "SageMaker CreateTrainingJob":{  
      "Type":"Task",
      "Resource":"arn:aws:states:::sagemaker:createTrainingJob.sync",
      "Parameters":{  
         "TrainingJobName":"search-model",
         "ResourceConfig":{  
            "InstanceCount":4,
            "InstanceType":"ml.c4.8xlarge",
            "VolumeSizeInGB":20
         },
         "HyperParameters":{  
            "mode":"batch_skipgram",
            "epochs":"5",
            "min_count":"5",
            "sampling_threshold":"0.0001",
            "learning_rate":"0.025",
            "window_size":"5",
            "vector_dim":"300",
            "negative_samples":"5",
            "batch_size":"11"
         },
         "AlgorithmSpecification":{  
            "TrainingImage":"...",
            "TrainingInputMode":"File"
         },
         "OutputDataConfig":{  
            "S3OutputPath":"s3://amzn-s3-demo-destination-bucket1/doc-search/model"
         },
         "StoppingCondition":{  
            "MaxRuntimeInSeconds":100000
         },
         "RoleArn":"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/docsearch-stepfunction-iam-role",
         "InputDataConfig":[  
            {  
               "ChannelName":"train",
               "DataSource":{  
                  "S3DataSource":{  
                     "S3DataType":"S3Prefix",
                     "S3Uri":"s3://amzn-s3-demo-destination-bucket1/doc-search/interim-data/training-data/",
                     "S3DataDistributionType":"FullyReplicated"
                  }
               }
            }
         ]
      },
      "Retry":[  
         {  
            "ErrorEquals":[  
               "SageMaker.AmazonSageMakerException"
            ],
            "IntervalSeconds":1,
            "MaxAttempts":100,
            "BackoffRate":1.1
         },
         {  
            "ErrorEquals":[  
               "SageMaker.ResourceLimitExceededException"
            ],
            "IntervalSeconds":60,
            "MaxAttempts":5000,
            "BackoffRate":1
         },
         {  
            "ErrorEquals":[  
               "States.Timeout"
            ],
            "IntervalSeconds":1,
            "MaxAttempts":5,
            "BackoffRate":1
         }
      ],
      "Catch":[  
         {  
            "ErrorEquals":[  
               "States.ALL"
            ],
            "ResultPath":"$.cause",
            "Next":"Sagemaker Training Job Error"
         }
      ],
      "Next":"Delete Interim Data Job"
   }
}

SageMaker Labeling Job Example

The following includes a Task state that creates an Amazon SageMaker labeling job.

{
  "StartAt": "SageMaker CreateLabelingJob",
  "TimeoutSeconds": 3600,
  "States": {
    "SageMaker CreateLabelingJob": {
      "Type": "Task",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:states:::sagemaker:createLabelingJob.sync",
      "Parameters": {
        "HumanTaskConfig": {
          "AnnotationConsolidationConfig": {
            "AnnotationConsolidationLambdaArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:ACS-TextMultiClass"
          },
          "NumberOfHumanWorkersPerDataObject": 1,
          "PreHumanTaskLambdaArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:PRE-TextMultiClass",
          "TaskDescription": "Classify the following text",
          "TaskKeywords": [
            "tc",
            "Labeling"
          ],
          "TaskTimeLimitInSeconds": 300,
          "TaskTitle": "Classify short bits of text",
          "UiConfig": {
            "UiTemplateS3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/TextClassification.template"
          },
          "WorkteamArn": "arn:aws:sagemaker:us-west-2:123456789012:workteam/private-crowd/ExampleTesting"
        },
        "InputConfig": {
          "DataAttributes": {
            "ContentClassifiers": [
              "FreeOfPersonallyIdentifiableInformation",
              "FreeOfAdultContent"
            ]
          },
          "DataSource": {
            "S3DataSource": {
              "ManifestS3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/manifest.json"
            }
          }
        },
        "LabelAttributeName": "Categories",
        "LabelCategoryConfigS3Uri": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/labelcategories.json",
        "LabelingJobName": "example-job-name",
        "OutputConfig": {
          "S3OutputPath": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/output"
        },
        "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service-role/AmazonSageMaker-ExecutionRole",
        "StoppingConditions": {
          "MaxHumanLabeledObjectCount": 10000,
          "MaxPercentageOfInputDatasetLabeled": 100
        }
      },
      "Next": "ValidateOutput"
    },
    "ValidateOutput": {
      "Type": "Choice",
      "Choices": [
        {
          "Not": {
            "Variable": "$.LabelingJobArn",
            "StringEquals": ""
          },
          "Next": "Succeed"
        }
      ],
      "Default": "Fail"
    },
    "Succeed": {
      "Type": "Succeed"
    },
    "Fail": {
      "Type": "Fail",
      "Error": "InvalidOutput",
      "Cause": "Output is not what was expected. This could be due to a service outage or a misconfigured service integration."
    }
  }
}

SageMaker Processing Job Example

The following includes a Task state that creates an Amazon SageMaker processing job.

{
  "StartAt": "SageMaker CreateProcessingJob Sync",
  "TimeoutSeconds": 3600,
  "States": {
    "SageMaker CreateProcessingJob Sync": {
      "Type": "Task",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:states:::sagemaker:createProcessingJob.sync",
      "Parameters": {
        "AppSpecification": {
          "ImageUri": "737474898029.dkr.ecr.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com/sagemaker-scikit-learn:0.20.0-cpu-py3"
        },
        "ProcessingResources": {
          "ClusterConfig": {
            "InstanceCount": 1,
            "InstanceType": "ml.t3.medium",
            "VolumeSizeInGB": 10
          }
        },
        "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/SM-003-CreateProcessingJobAPIExecutionRole",
        "ProcessingJobName.$": "$.id"
      },
      "Next": "ValidateOutput"
    },
    "ValidateOutput": {
      "Type": "Choice",
      "Choices": [
        {
          "Not": {
            "Variable": "$.ProcessingJobArn",
            "StringEquals": ""
          },
          "Next": "Succeed"
        }
      ],
      "Default": "Fail"
    },
    "Succeed": {
      "Type": "Succeed"
    },
    "Fail": {
      "Type": "Fail",
      "Error": "InvalidConnectorOutput",
      "Cause": "Connector output is not what was expected. This could be due to a service outage or a misconfigured connector."
    }
  }
}

IAM policies for calling Amazon SageMaker

The following example templates show how Amazon Step Functions generates IAM policies based on the resources in your state machine definition. For more information, see How Step Functions generates IAM policies for integrated services and Discover service integration patterns in Step Functions.

Note

For these examples, [[roleArn]] refers to the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that SageMaker uses to access model artifacts and docker images for deployment on ML compute instances, or for batch transform jobs. For more information, see Amazon SageMaker Roles.

CreateTrainingJob

Static resources

Run a Job (.sync)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob",
        "sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob",
        "sagemaker:StopTrainingJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:training-job/[[trainingJobName]]*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:PutTargets",
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:DescribeRule"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:events:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:rule/StepFunctionsGetEventsForSageMakerTrainingJobsRule"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Request Response and Callback (.waitForTaskToken)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:training-job/[[trainingJobName]]*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Dynamic resources

.sync or .waitForTaskToken
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob",
        "sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob",
        "sagemaker:StopTrainingJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:training-job/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:PutTargets",
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:DescribeRule"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:events:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:rule/StepFunctionsGetEventsForSageMakerTrainingJobsRule"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Request Response and Callback (.waitForTaskToken)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTrainingJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:training-job/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

CreateTransformJob

Note

Amazon Step Functions will not automatically create a policy for CreateTransformJob when you create a state machine that integrates with SageMaker. You must attach an inline policy to the created role based on one of the following IAM examples.

Static resources

Run a Job (.sync)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTransformJob",
        "sagemaker:DescribeTransformJob",
        "sagemaker:StopTransformJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:transform-job/[[transformJobName]]*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:PutTargets",
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:DescribeRule"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:events:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:rule/StepFunctionsGetEventsForSageMakerTransformJobsRule"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Request Response and Callback (.waitForTaskToken)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTransformJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:transform-job/[[transformJobName]]*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Dynamic resources

Run a Job (.sync)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTransformJob",
        "sagemaker:DescribeTransformJob",
        "sagemaker:StopTransformJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:transform-job/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:PutTargets",
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:DescribeRule"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:events:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:rule/StepFunctionsGetEventsForSageMakerTransformJobsRule"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Request Response and Callback (.waitForTaskToken)
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:CreateTransformJob"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:[[region]]:[[accountId]]:transform-job/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "[[roleArn]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "sagemaker.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}