AWS personalize service not available using boto3 - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to setup a boto3 client to use the AWS personalize service along the lines of what is done here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/personalize/latest/dg/data-prep-importing.html
I have faithfully followed the tutorial up to this point. I have my s3 bucket set up, and I have an appropriately formatted csv.
I configured my access and secret tokens and can successfully perform basic operations on my s3 bucket, so I think that part is working:
import s3fs
fs = s3fs.S3FileSystem()
fs.ls('personalize-service-test')
'personalize-test/data'
When I try to create my service, things start to fail:
import boto3
personalize = boto3.client('personalize')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnknownServiceError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-13-c23d30ee6bd1> in <module>
----> 1 personalize = boto3.client('personalize')
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/boto3/__init__.py in client(*args, **kwargs)
89 See :py:meth:`boto3.session.Session.client`.
90 """
---> 91 return _get_default_session().client(*args, **kwargs)
92
93
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/boto3/session.py in client(self, service_name, region_name, api_version, use_ssl, verify, endpoint_url, aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, aws_session_token, config)
261 aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key_id,
262 aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_access_key,
--> 263 aws_session_token=aws_session_token, config=config)
264
265 def resource(self, service_name, region_name=None, api_version=None,
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/session.py in create_client(self, service_name, region_name, api_version, use_ssl, verify, endpoint_url, aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, aws_session_token, config)
836 is_secure=use_ssl, endpoint_url=endpoint_url, verify=verify,
837 credentials=credentials, scoped_config=self.get_scoped_config(),
--> 838 client_config=config, api_version=api_version)
839 monitor = self._get_internal_component('monitor')
840 if monitor is not None:
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/client.py in create_client(self, service_name, region_name, is_secure, endpoint_url, verify, credentials, scoped_config, api_version, client_config)
77 'choose-service-name', service_name=service_name)
78 service_name = first_non_none_response(responses, default=service_name)
---> 79 service_model = self._load_service_model(service_name, api_version)
80 cls = self._create_client_class(service_name, service_model)
81 endpoint_bridge = ClientEndpointBridge(
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/client.py in _load_service_model(self, service_name, api_version)
115 def _load_service_model(self, service_name, api_version=None):
116 json_model = self._loader.load_service_model(service_name, 'service-2',
--> 117 api_version=api_version)
118 service_model = ServiceModel(json_model, service_name=service_name)
119 return service_model
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/loaders.py in _wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs)
130 if key in self._cache:
131 return self._cache[key]
--> 132 data = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
133 self._cache[key] = data
134 return data
/anaconda3/envs/ds_std_3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/botocore/loaders.py in load_service_model(self, service_name, type_name, api_version)
376 raise UnknownServiceError(
377 service_name=service_name,
--> 378 known_service_names=', '.join(sorted(known_services)))
379 if api_version is None:
380 api_version = self.determine_latest_version(
UnknownServiceError: Unknown service: 'personalize'. Valid service names are: acm, acm-pca, alexaforbusiness, amplify, apigateway, apigatewaymanagementapi, apigatewayv2, application-autoscaling, appmesh, appstream, appsync, athena, autoscaling, autoscaling-plans, backup, batch, budgets, ce, chime, cloud9, clouddirectory, cloudformation, cloudfront, cloudhsm, cloudhsmv2, cloudsearch, cloudsearchdomain, cloudtrail, cloudwatch, codebuild, codecommit, codedeploy, codepipeline, codestar, cognito-identity, cognito-idp, cognito-sync, comprehend, comprehendmedical, config, connect, cur, datapipeline, datasync, dax, devicefarm, directconnect, discovery, dlm, dms, docdb, ds, dynamodb, dynamodbstreams, ec2, ecr, ecs, efs, eks, elasticache, elasticbeanstalk, elastictranscoder, elb, elbv2, emr, es, events, firehose, fms, fsx, gamelift, glacier, globalaccelerator, glue, greengrass, guardduty, health, iam, importexport, inspector, iot, iot-data, iot-jobs-data, iot1click-devices, iot1click-projects, iotanalytics, kafka, kinesis, kinesis-video-archived-media, kinesis-video-media, kinesisanalytics, kinesisanalyticsv2, kinesisvideo, kms, lambda, lex-models, lex-runtime, license-manager, lightsail, logs, machinelearning, macie, marketplace-entitlement, marketplacecommerceanalytics, mediaconnect, mediaconvert, medialive, mediapackage, mediastore, mediastore-data, mediatailor, meteringmarketplace, mgh, mobile, mq, mturk, neptune, opsworks, opsworkscm, organizations, pi, pinpoint, pinpoint-email, pinpoint-sms-voice, polly, pricing, quicksight, ram, rds, rds-data, redshift, rekognition, resource-groups, resourcegroupstaggingapi, robomaker, route53, route53domains, route53resolver, s3, s3control, sagemaker, sagemaker-runtime, sdb, secretsmanager, securityhub, serverlessrepo, servicecatalog, servicediscovery, ses, shield, signer, sms, sms-voice, snowball, sns, sqs, ssm, stepfunctions, storagegateway, sts, support, swf, textract, transcribe, transfer, translate, waf, waf-regional, workdocs, worklink, workmail, workspaces, xray
Indeed the service name 'personalize' is missing from the list.
I already tried upgrading boto3 and botocore to their latest version and restarting my kernel.
boto3 1.9.143
botocore 1.12.143
Any idea as to what to try next would be great.

Answer 1

The boto3 documentation does not (currently on 1.9.143) list personalize as a supported service.

Answer 2

Have you signed up for the preview through the landing page? Personalize is still in limited preview, so your account will not be able to access it through boto3 by default, unless otherwise whitelisted.
Edit: Personalize is currently publicly available, so this answer is no longer relevant.

Answer 3

I had neglected to perform these setup steps:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/personalize/latest/dg/aws-personalize-set-up-aws-cli.html
When I did that and restarted my kernel, boto3 picked up the service definition and now things seem to work.