Likelihood to Recommend A well-suited scenario for using AWS Tensor Flow is when having a project with a geographically dispersed team, a client overseas and large data to use for training. AWS Tensor Flow is less appropriate when working for clients in regions where it hasn't been allowed yet for use. Since smaller clients are in regions where AWS Tensor Flow hasn't been allowed for use, and those clients traditionally don't have enough hardware, this situation deters a wider use of the tool.
Read full review It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
Read full review Pros Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows resizable compute capacity in the cloud, providing the necessary elasticity to provide services for both, small and medium-sized businesses. Tensor Flow allows us to train our models much faster than in our on-premise equipment. Most of the pre-trained models are easy to adapt to our clients' needs. Read full review Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc. SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly. Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work. Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models. Read full review Cons SageMaker isn't available in all regions. This is complicated for some clients overseas. For larger instances, when using a GPU, it takes a while to talk to a customer service representative to ask for a limit increase. Given this, it's recommendable to ask in advance for a limit increase in more expensive and larger cases; otherwise, SageMaker will set the limit to zero by default. Since the data has to be stored in S3 and copied to training, it doesn't allow to test and debug locally. Therefore, we have to wait a lot to check everything after every trail. Read full review The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection Read full review Likelihood to Renew because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
Read full review Usability The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
Read full review Reliability and Availability From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
Read full review Performance Never had slow response even on our very busy network
Read full review Support Rating I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
Read full review In-Person Training The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
Read full review Online Training The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
Read full review Implementation Rating It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
Read full review Alternatives Considered Microsoft Azure is better than Amazon Tensor Flow because it provides easier and pre-built capabilities such as Anomaly Detection, Recommendation, and Ranking. AWS is better than IBM Watson ML Studio because it has direct and prebuilt clustering capabilities AWS, like IBM Watson ML Studio, has powerful built-in algorithms, providing a stronger platform when comparing it with MS Azure ML Services and Google ML Engine.
Read full review The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
Read full review Scalability It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
Read full review Return on Investment Positive: It has allowed us to work with our overseas teams without any large hardware investing. Positive: Pre-trained models significantly reduce the time to develop solutions for our clients. Negative: Since it's a relatively new tool, you have to be careful about not paying for large errors while learning to use the tool. Read full review Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks Read full review ScreenShots