Amazon SageMaker vs. Azure Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVM)

Amazon SageMaker is a great tool for developing machine learning models that take more effort than just point-and-click type of analyses. The software works well with the other tools in the Amazon ecosystem, so if you use Amazon Web Services or are thinking about it, SageMaker would be a great addition. SageMaker is great for consumer insights, predictive analytics, and looking for gems of insight in the massive amounts of data we create. SageMaker is less suitable for analysts who do generally "small" data analyses, and "small" data analyses in today's world can be billions of records.

Incentivized

Azure DSVM is useful in [a] Machine Learning environment where GPU-based processing is [required]. [The] most relevant [users] for the Azure DSVM is in ML/AI for model training and processing [high-end] CPU tasks with GPU compatibility. Azure DSVM is built for [a] startup to low medium IT environments where the ML/AI-based projects are [carried] out.

• Provides enough freedom for experienced data scientists and also for those who just need things done without going much deeper into building models.
• Customization and easy to alter and change.
• If you already are an Amazon user, you do not need to transition over to another software.

Incentivized

• Leveraging data.
• Computer vision.
• Data science.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Azure DSVM pricing must be reduced so that an AI-based start-up can use the Azure DSVM.
• Azure must create an environment to use Azure DSVM offline as well.
• Lack of frameworks

Amazon SageMaker comes with other supportive services like S3, SQS, and a vast variety of servers on EC2. It's very comfortable to manage the process and also support the end application by one click hosting option. Also, it charges on the base of what you use and how long you use it, so it becomes less costly compared to others.

Incentivized

It's within the Azure environment and it's easy to manage.

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

• Azure DSVM is little costly with long term support for ML based environments.
• Azure DSVM is very good for short tasking and costs us [a] little low than the on-prem server.
• [Scaling] option is very convenient.