How do I invoke a Amazon SageMaker endpoint with the Python SDK

Question

I'm trying to use this very simple command:

import boto3 client = boto3.client('sagemaker-runtime')

listed in the documentation

but i'm getting this error:

UnknownServiceError: Unknown service: 'sagemaker-runtime'. Valid service names are: acm, etc..

My goal is to be able to invoke the endpoint that I've created in Amazon SageMaker.

I'm doing this from a Jupyter notebook in Sagemaker, so I feel like this should work no problem. How do I get it to run here, and outside of the Sagemaker environment?

Answer 1

Amazon SageMaker is a very new service (December 2017).

You will need to update your boto library to use it:

sudo pip install boto --upgrade
sudo pip install boto3 --upgrade
sudo pip install awscli --upgrade