Top things to know about Amazon Sagemaker
Amazon Sagemaker has multiple applications and use cases in our organization. It is used to create machine learning models for our call …
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What is Amazon SageMaker?
Amazon SageMaker enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.
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What is Amazon SageMaker?
Amazon SageMaker enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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February 21, 2022
Top things to know about Amazon Sagemaker
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.
- 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
- 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
- Studio Lab
- Model Training
- Pipelines
- Kubernetes Integration
- Machine Learning models help in reducing operating cost for manual intensive processes by deploying chatbots
- Improvement in product roadmap for learning about customer feedback on an early stage
- Supporting analytics and data science team to share correct insights and models with business teams
February 04, 2019
Amazon SageMaker is quite good at machine learning, as long as you're in the Amazon Ecosystem.
Amazon SageMaker is used by a specific department that supports machine learning models development and deployment. From my perspective, the software makes a valiant effort at making data mining and machine learning more user-friendly, something that is not always an easy job. SageMaker addresses clients who wish to use machine learning for market predictions, looking for data mining details, and predictive analytics. It's great for what it attempts to do well.
- Amazon SageMaker is great for visually seeing the development of machine learning models. The process is set up in a logical step-by-step process.
- Amazon SageMaker makes training data models about as easy as it gets. It's straight-forward to construct training and test samples.
- Amazon SageMaker makes deploying machine learning models much easier than other open-source tools.
- Amazon SageMaker is a great tool for a data scientist, although surprisingly, comparing different machine learning models with SageMaker is not as easy as one would think. I think Amazon needs to team up with a data scientist who does ensemble modeling.
- Because SageMaker is targeted for machine learning models, other models a data scientist might use require more effort to get them incorporated. My guess is Amazon is moving to make SageMaker a more complete tool.
- SageMaker can take a long time to run on larger data sets. That's the case with every big data science tool I've used, but SageMaker doesn't seem to be as quick as other tools.
- SageMaker was a positive return on investment for those analysts that wanted to use new tools and had the aptitude to implement machine learning models with new resources. Such individuals were quick to improve their productivity with SageMaker.
- SageMaker was not a useful tool for analysts used to running reports on small data. Machine learning is a new area, and analysts that are only marginally interested in machine learning will find SageMaker not worth the effort.
- When used in combination with other machine learning tools, SageMaker is a perfect addition because it complements the Amazon ecosystem while the other tools provide more simple model development environments.
- IBM Watson Analytics, IBM Watson Content Analytics, IBM Watson Commerce Insights, IBM Watson Campaign Automation, IBM Watson Customer Experience Analytics, IBM Watson Explorer, Watson Studio (formerly IBM Data Science Experience), Amazon Tensor Flow, TensorFlow, Intel Deep Learning Cloud and Google Cloud AI
Amazon SageMaker is the best option for machine learning if you are already using the Amazon data science ecosystem. The software integrates nicely with MapReduce and most of the other Amazon tools. Additionally, MapReduce does a fairly good job of making the development of machine learning models a user-friendly experience. Sometimes that is no easy task. With this said, it is clear when using MapReduce that the Amazon developers do not have as long of a history in advanced analytics, something that competing tools, such as IBM Watson, has a complete grasp on. Other tools are similar in speed and functionality.
August 29, 2018
Incomplete but Promising
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
March 29, 2018
Amazon SageMaker Review
At my previous company, I worked for a top social media brand on their recruiting models and functions. In this role, they were utilizing Amazon SageMaker in its early stages. Because of this, I was tasked with training and onboarding these employees in the use of the tool and guide them through this process. It addressed the problems of building and managing the machine learning process but takes away a lot of the unmanageable parts of this.
- 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.
- I think that although the algorithms are there and you are using one click, there could be more detailed descriptions located in places so that other users are able to easily find the right formula and tools.
- Mobile friendly options would be a huge plus, even tracking what employees are using this tool for in regards to reporting.
- Use of this tool across areas of our organization has allowed for more time to be spent on other things as this is taking a lot of the heavy lifting and developing out of the machine learning process all together.
- Database of algorithms ready to use and adjust, customizing is key with this group of employees and their daily work while using this software.
We have not invested in another machine learning software at this time and so far this has proved very successful with our machine learning teams. As mentioned, I am training these individuals simply on the fundamentals of the software and using it/customizing it for their needs. It has been very easy to do this and has gotten great reviews across the organization so far.