# Creating an Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model
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A model is the software that you train to find the concepts, scenes, and objects that are unique to your business. You can create a model with the Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels console or with the AWS SDK. Before creating an Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model, we recommend that you read [Understanding Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels](understanding-custom-labels.md). 

This section provides console and SDK information about creating a project, creating training and test datasets for different model types, and training a model. Later sections show you how to improve and use your model. For a tutorial that shows you how to create and use a specific type of model with the console, see [Classifying images](tutorial-classification.md). 

**Topics**
+ [Creating a project](mp-create-project.md)
+ [Creating training and test datasets](creating-datasets.md)
+ [Training an Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels model](training-model.md)
+ [Debugging a failed model training](tm-debugging.md)