Amazon SageMaker vs. Weights & Biases

It allows for one-click processes and for things to be auto checked before they are moved through the process but through the system. It also makes training easy. I am able to train users on the basic fundamentals of the tool and how it is used very easily as it is fully managed on its own which is incredible.

Incentivized

No brainer to use it when doing ML experiments as it is very easy compared to any other open source tool. You don't have to host anything like in Tensorboard.

Experiment details can be shared very easily with public using the reports

Incentivized

• 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

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• Metrics Logging
• Hyperparmeters Sweeps
• Model Artifcats

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• It's very good for the hardcore programmer, but a little bit complex for a data scientist or new hire who does not have a strong programming background.
• Most of the popular library and ML frameworks are there, but we still have to depend on them for new releases.

Incentivized

• Dashboard lags when we log a lot of metrics
• Improved support for matplotlib charts and documentation of wandb custom charts is not straghtforward

Incentivized

Amazon SageMaker took the heavy lifting out of building and creating models. It allowed for our organization to use our current system for integration and essentially added on a feature to help all levels of Data scientists and IT professionals in our department and company as a whole. The training was simple as well.

Incentivized

• We have been able to deliver data products more rapidly because we spend less time building data pipelines and model servers.
• We can prototype more rapidly because it is easy to configure notebooks to access AWS resources.
• For our use-cases, serving models is less expensive with SageMaker than bespoke servers.

Incentivized

• Made it very easy to track experiments
• Track ML and Business Metrics improvements across experiments
• Reproduce runs which is essential in ML modelling

Incentivized