Amazon Deep Learning AMIs vs. Azure OpenAI Service

Amazon AMIs has been very useful for the quick setup and implementation of deep learning for data analysis which is something I have used the service for in my own research. We commonly use the service to enable students to run intensive deep learning algorithms for their assessments. This service works well in this scenario as it allows students to quickly set up a suitable environment and get started with little hassle. If you are looking to run simple, surface level deep learning algorithms (kind of contradictory statement I know) then AMI is more complicated than most will need. When it comes to teaching the basics of Machine Learning, this kind of system is unnecessary and there are other alternatives which can be used. That being said this service is a must if you are looking to run complex deep learning via the cloud.

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If you're looking for a managed OpenAI API service, then Azure OpenAI Service is a good choice.

It's fully compatible with OpenAI API, has lots of models to choose from, lots of parameters to configure to suite your needs.

The documents are well maintained, with examples to get started.

You can also setup firewall to restrict access to the API to certain IP addresses, like those of your VPCs.

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• Setting up environment
• Support for different types of machines
• Perfect for Machine Learning / Deep Learning use cases
• Nvidia / Cuda / Conda support easily

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• Generating SQL
• Generating Images
• Sensible Response

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• Some aspects of the User Interface are quite confusing and activating packages can be a bit convoluted
• It can be a bit confusing to switch between frameworks for novice users

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• The user interface is similar to the Azure, so it's bit laggy, they should improve it.
• The chat models sometimes return nothing, I guess they are still testing them.
• The models we use have quota limitation on tokens and number of requests.

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I think it's a good product and appreciate the addition secure guard rails that running it in Azure provide. However, I still struggle at times to get to the right resources for support and region-based capacity can also be a challenge.

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Both of these services provide similar functionality and from my experience both are top class services which cover most of your needs. I think ultimately it comes down to what you need each service for. For example Amazon DL AMIs allows for clustering by default meaning I am able to run several clustering algorithms without a problem whereas IBM Watson Studio doesn't provide this functionality. They both provide a wide range of default packages such as Amazon providing caffe-2 and IBM providing sci-kitlearn. My main point is that both are very good services which have very similar functionality, you just need to think about the costs, suitability of features and integration with other services you are using.

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1. Open AI is best at giving accurate answers. 2. It is secure and more trustworthy 3. Most of our client using Azure cloud so it becomes go to choice for them. 4. Scalable as it handles 1000s of request per minute. 5. SDKs are easy to use and well documented.

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• Saves a lot of Infra Costs
• Saves a lot of time in handling environment issues
• Easy to start a new instance

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• Our test group of 100 people created more than 200 conversations within the first day
• People were excited & asked to be included to the test group once words spread that we have an internal ChatGPT portal
• People started to create & share their own assistants (prompt engineering) for various purposes like code review, marketing, email, etc.

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