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Amazon SageMaker Reviews

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Top things to know about Amazon Sagemaker

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Sagemaker has multiple applications and use cases in our organization. It is used to create machine learning models for our call center team to analyse frequently raised customer problems, widely accepted solutions. These models help in reducing operating cost by automating and optimizing processes with minimal manual intervention. The other usecase include product development which required decision making based on image processing.

Pros

  • Machine Learning at scale by deploying huge amount of training data
  • Accelerated data processing for faster outputs and learnings
  • Kubernetes integration for containerized deployments
  • Creating API endpoints for use by technical users

Cons

  • The UI can be eased up a bit for use by business analysts and non technical users
  • For huge amount of data pull from legacy solutions, the platform lags a bit
  • Considering ML is an emerging topic and would be used by most of the organizations in future, the pipeline integrations can be optimized

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Sagemaker suits well in areas of data science and Machine learnings where medium to high-volume data is to be used for analysis.
For a lean and platform agnostic deployment, it provides kubernetes integration to containerize the solution and deploy on any platform.
It is one of the best solution for technical users for training Machine Learning models.
Vetted Review
Amazon SageMaker
1 year of experience

Incomplete but Promising

Rating: 7 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SageMaker in the engineering and data science departments to host Jupyter notebooks, periodically retrain models, and serve models in production. Data scientists work in Jupyter notebooks hosted on SageMaker notebook instances instead of their local machines. We often inject models into AWS-provided containers, and use SageMaker to provide a managed, auto-scaling HTTP interface.

Pros

  • SageMaker is useful as a managed Jupyter notebook server. Using the notebook instances' IAM roles to grant access to private S3 buckets and other AWS resources is great. Using SageMaker's lifecycle scripts and AWS Secrets Manager to inject connection strings and other secrets is great.
  • SageMaker is good at serving models. The interface it provides is often clunky, but a managed, auto-scaling model server is powerful.
  • SageMaker is opinionated about versioning machine learning models and useful if you agree with its opinions.

Cons

  • SageMaker does not allow you to schedule training jobs.
  • SageMaker does not provide a mechanism for easily tracking metrics logged during training.
  • We often fit feature extraction and model pipelines. We can inject the model artifacts into AWS-provided containers, but we cannot inject the feature extractors. We could provide our own container to SageMaker instead, but this is tantamount to serving the model ourselves.

Likelihood to Recommend

SageMaker is great for serving Jupyter notebooks, particularly if you already use other AWS products, such as S3. SageMaker's model retraining function is useful if you write a few Lambda functions to invoke jobs. Its model serving function is useful if your team has limited resources and is willing to submit to SageMaker's opinions.

AWS - The best!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon SageMaker is currently being used by our analytics and technology groups but managed by the associates at our firm. It addresses the business problems of reporting and having one ultimate software of data and analysis that can be used across locations and employees. It allows for one place to store the best algorithms for predicting data on cases and court trials.It also provides examples on actual data sets that can be used, algorithms and easy to run notebooks.

Pros

  • Provides the basis for developing algorithms and data without going very deep into the actual development.
  • Amazon software and so can be used with other Amazon software your organization already uses.
  • Training and on boarding of the software and customer service was great to work with.

Cons

  • Searching and descriptions can be easier to read and interpret.
  • Training modules and customer service training representative could make on boarding employees easier.

Likelihood to Recommend

SageMaker is well suited for an organization with a robust IT department that might not be as specifically well versed in model building and deployment features. It has built in algorithms and models as well as computations that lay the framework for what our department uses this tool for. It allows our team to get things done whether they are very experienced data scientists or a recent IT new hire who might not know all the ropes yet. They are both able to dive in and develop models and algorithms because the foundation is already there. It is also well suited for a company that uses amazon already as the integration is very easy. I would say the integration might be harder for an organization that does not use Amazon or a smaller organization that might not need as much heavy data or reporting.
Vetted Review
Amazon SageMaker
1 year of experience