Amazon SageMaker is one of the products we've been dealing with along with Azure ML. I manage a data science team and our machine learning and AI infrastructure, so I have not been using it myself as a consultant or developer. For machine learning itself, it's fine. The nuance is what the rest of your data infrastructure looks like and what other platforms you have. Particularly with AI ramping up, you have to go to another service again, so it depends on the types of solutions that you're actually trying to tackle. For machine learning, I would give Amazon SageMaker a seven or eight out of ten. I would recommend Amazon SageMaker to others. Overall review rating: 7/10
For new users, I advise starting with a free trial and taking advantage of basic resources available from Amazon's official site. Intermediate AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-reviews ) knowledge is beneficial for making the most of SageMaker, but expertise in machine learning isn't necessary. I rate Amazon SageMaker overall as an eight.
I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch. If you do not want to maintain the instances, consider using Datablock instances. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate SageMaker a nine.
On a scale from one to ten, where ten is the best, I rate Amazon SageMaker as a nine. For new users evaluating SageMaker, it is important to remember that it takes some learning, however, the solution is straightforward and beneficial. There are no special prerequisites except having an account.
DEMI Instructor at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Oct 31, 2024
I suggest SageMaker for anyone looking to facilitate an end-to-end machine learning workflow, from preparing data to deploying models, due to its comprehensive feature set. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is an excellent product for users already within the AWS ecosystem, but its integration capabilities outside AWS could be improved. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Partner & Chapter | Management - NodeJS - Java - C# - Python at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
Oct 22, 2024
It's important for new users to clearly define the testing process and understand what they aim to achieve. SageMaker facilitates a fast, secure, and scalable MLOps process. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is a fantastic tool for short-term use. The billing increases significantly for prolonged use, but for short-term projects, it is quite economical. For those considering it, it is highly recommended that they use it for quick, temporary projects and then move out. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
If you want to use Amazon SageMaker for the first time, I would advise completing one of the AWS certifications and reading the documentation thoroughly. Having someone experienced with the product to guide you can also be very helpful. Despite its high price, the tool is continually evolving, and updates are frequent and relevant. However, due to its pricing and some issues, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
Data Scientist at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Jul 17, 2024
I used Amazon SageMaker as a customer from the client side, though I have worked as a contractor with Amazon for two years. I work for Persistent, but the engagement with our client was over last year. When I was working at Amazon for two years, I was working at Amazon. Now, we are partners as well. We are strategic partners for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, and most of the ecosystems. If you want to try out something with, say, for instance, you want to do a PoC for testing more, I mean, say, for instance, that you're doing a data annotation project. You want to see how it goes. You don't want to invest a lot, and you want to try it out and see whether it works or not. For those kinds of typical PoC situations, I would say Amazon SageMaker is good. You are using a microservices architecture, and you want to go serverless. That is the first use case. The second use case is that you want to go serverless and plug and play a lot of components rather than having a bulk of computing like EC2 and all that. You would rather have an Amazon setup that is serverless. We use it for tuning, but it's just like any other tool, except for the fact that it's serverless. It's not that it significantly boosts anything; it's just a choice. Either we tune it on-premise or we tune it on the cloud. We use Azure, AWS, and all that. So, in terms of tuning, it's not special. It's just the way you tune any model in any environment, and that is not a huge thing. It is a good tool that works well with its components and other components. There's nothing special about the tuning itself. You can either use PySpark or other cloud technologies. It's not that we get a huge boost just because it's AWS. The serverless feature and the complete lifecycle that can be handled inside SageMaker are important. It covers everything from training the model to deploying it and sometimes using it for data pipelines. However, we generally don't use it for pipelining and data transformations because it's expensive inside SageMaker. We do use it for model training, although sometimes we train outside. We also utilize model training and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, which is pretty handy because you don't have to train the model from scratch. You can use it, especially for LLM settings, right out of the box. There are models inside SageMaker that make it a little faster, both from a computing perspective and from a bandwidth deployment perspective, so you don't have to spend a lot of time training before deployment. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is definitely valuable, along with the whole lifecycle for ML as well. I would recommend others if they want to do a quick PoC workload, or proof of concept, and if they want to do something very quick, then I would definitely recommend it. If it's a very huge production workload, then I might want to consider other options. But for anything where there is a PoC kind of thing, I would recommend products in such areas. Speaking about AI, I can say that it's kind of quick to set up and get it running. I can't say specifically. We have worked on a lot of projects. We have worked with document processing projects a lot. In those cases, if you were asking about specific projects, I can remember a recent project where we were trying to digitize documents using manual annotation and automated ML models, but there, we didn't use SageMaker. We used Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, which is under the umbrella of SageMaker. If you use Ground Truth, it's a SageMaker product. We were using SageMaker Ground Truth, which is pretty handy because it sits well in the environment. If you are specifically asking how it accelerated the process, it was easy to set up, and we just got going in less than a week. So, yeah, I can think of that example. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
I would rate Amazon SageMaker a nine out of ten because while it has all the necessary features, there could be improvements in making the data flow more manageable.
Tech Lead - Sanlam Fintech Cluster - Data,ML,AI Eng. at Sanlam
Real User
Top 5
Feb 27, 2024
The product can scale model training and deployment. It is one platform. It is easy to use. People who want to use the product must first focus on defining the workflow of their team without any tools and then see how the product adapts rather than trying to use all the features of the system. It can confuse us. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I have not integrated Amazon SageMaker with other products in our company. If someone plans to use the free trial version of Amazon SageMaker, then the person should be aware that it is chargeable since Amazon has not mentioned it in a written format. For enterprise-level users, there is nothing to worry about since their organization will take care of the costs attached to the solution. I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
I am doing a benchmarking study between Databricks and Amazon SageMaker to determine the most cost-efficient and effective for our organization. Amazon SageMaker is a pretty good solution for users who don't have any knowledge about their data and want to try different scenarios. The solution is fast and uses less code. Overall, I rate Amazon SageMaker a seven out of ten.
Data Scientist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Nov 13, 2023
Anyone doing on-prem at the moment for anything but their core datasets or legacy systems that can't be moved is just paying useless money. I rate Amazon SageMaker a seven out of ten. I'd recommend it to other users. It's worth syncing the time and effort into getting it running.
From an exploration perspective, for people who cannot afford hardware at the physical location, it would be good to use the services from a cloud for leverage. It is easy to scale up or down when operating on an AWS Cloud. Suppose we have an on-premises or hybrid solution. In that case, we need to look at the economic structure of the organization, after which bringing everything into a physical location can get really complex. I suggest others explore using AWS before deciding on future plans. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is definitely not the best product out there. I recommend that one can quickly do prototyping on SageMaker. It is easy to take your workload to the AWS Cloud. Amazon SageMaker's setup is very fast, so you'll be able to validate all your hypotheses pretty fast. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Apr 19, 2020
I think for anyone using SageMaker it will help automate pipelines, and make it easier than doing the process manually. For anyone already on the AWS platform, they should definitely make use of it. I would rate this product an eight out of 10.
Cloud Architect & Support Service Delivery Manager at Almoayyed Computers
Reseller
Feb 26, 2020
Myself and certain people in my team have just begun the training. There is an eight-hour training video to assist with learning how to use this solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Lead Data Scientist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Feb 2, 2020
My advice to anybody who is considering this solution is to think about using multiple cloud services. This solution is really good but it has a few problems. In terms of deployment, it is a clear winner. For developing machine learning models, taking the user experience into account, I would probably still opt for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. Overall, there are a few improvements that I want but SageMaker is pretty good. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 16, 2019
I am not exposed to Amazon SageMaker but I know it's capabilities. I know exactly what we can do and how we can do it. We have been provided with several solutions for image processing, speech processing, and text processing. They have provided a built-in solution for every task. You can use tools for deploying your model, you just have to plug and play. There is no cessation from what I can see. Whatever they have in the industry, they can solve 98% of the use cases. There is also data engineering which is quite important. It's where the real work is done. Amazon has already provided a free slot for each of the services that we have done. With Amazon SageMaker, however, I have not seen that. I have not yet explored everything, but they are doing good work. In terms of the dashboard, I can say that I have not explored the visualization aspect very much, but they have their tools. I don't know how flexible it is and how much customization you can do. That's something on the visualization side that I don't enjoy very much. My interests are mostly towards data engineering or data science. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that 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.
Amazon SageMaker is one of the products we've been dealing with along with Azure ML. I manage a data science team and our machine learning and AI infrastructure, so I have not been using it myself as a consultant or developer. For machine learning itself, it's fine. The nuance is what the rest of your data infrastructure looks like and what other platforms you have. Particularly with AI ramping up, you have to go to another service again, so it depends on the types of solutions that you're actually trying to tackle. For machine learning, I would give Amazon SageMaker a seven or eight out of ten. I would recommend Amazon SageMaker to others. Overall review rating: 7/10
For new users, I advise starting with a free trial and taking advantage of basic resources available from Amazon's official site. Intermediate AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-reviews ) knowledge is beneficial for making the most of SageMaker, but expertise in machine learning isn't necessary. I rate Amazon SageMaker overall as an eight.
I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch. If you do not want to maintain the instances, consider using Datablock instances. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate SageMaker a nine.
On a scale from one to ten, where ten is the best, I rate Amazon SageMaker as a nine. For new users evaluating SageMaker, it is important to remember that it takes some learning, however, the solution is straightforward and beneficial. There are no special prerequisites except having an account.
I suggest SageMaker for anyone looking to facilitate an end-to-end machine learning workflow, from preparing data to deploying models, due to its comprehensive feature set. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is an excellent product for users already within the AWS ecosystem, but its integration capabilities outside AWS could be improved. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
It's important for new users to clearly define the testing process and understand what they aim to achieve. SageMaker facilitates a fast, secure, and scalable MLOps process. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is a fantastic tool for short-term use. The billing increases significantly for prolonged use, but for short-term projects, it is quite economical. For those considering it, it is highly recommended that they use it for quick, temporary projects and then move out. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
If you want to use Amazon SageMaker for the first time, I would advise completing one of the AWS certifications and reading the documentation thoroughly. Having someone experienced with the product to guide you can also be very helpful. Despite its high price, the tool is continually evolving, and updates are frequent and relevant. However, due to its pricing and some issues, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
I used Amazon SageMaker as a customer from the client side, though I have worked as a contractor with Amazon for two years. I work for Persistent, but the engagement with our client was over last year. When I was working at Amazon for two years, I was working at Amazon. Now, we are partners as well. We are strategic partners for Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, and most of the ecosystems. If you want to try out something with, say, for instance, you want to do a PoC for testing more, I mean, say, for instance, that you're doing a data annotation project. You want to see how it goes. You don't want to invest a lot, and you want to try it out and see whether it works or not. For those kinds of typical PoC situations, I would say Amazon SageMaker is good. You are using a microservices architecture, and you want to go serverless. That is the first use case. The second use case is that you want to go serverless and plug and play a lot of components rather than having a bulk of computing like EC2 and all that. You would rather have an Amazon setup that is serverless. We use it for tuning, but it's just like any other tool, except for the fact that it's serverless. It's not that it significantly boosts anything; it's just a choice. Either we tune it on-premise or we tune it on the cloud. We use Azure, AWS, and all that. So, in terms of tuning, it's not special. It's just the way you tune any model in any environment, and that is not a huge thing. It is a good tool that works well with its components and other components. There's nothing special about the tuning itself. You can either use PySpark or other cloud technologies. It's not that we get a huge boost just because it's AWS. The serverless feature and the complete lifecycle that can be handled inside SageMaker are important. It covers everything from training the model to deploying it and sometimes using it for data pipelines. However, we generally don't use it for pipelining and data transformations because it's expensive inside SageMaker. We do use it for model training, although sometimes we train outside. We also utilize model training and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, which is pretty handy because you don't have to train the model from scratch. You can use it, especially for LLM settings, right out of the box. There are models inside SageMaker that make it a little faster, both from a computing perspective and from a bandwidth deployment perspective, so you don't have to spend a lot of time training before deployment. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is definitely valuable, along with the whole lifecycle for ML as well. I would recommend others if they want to do a quick PoC workload, or proof of concept, and if they want to do something very quick, then I would definitely recommend it. If it's a very huge production workload, then I might want to consider other options. But for anything where there is a PoC kind of thing, I would recommend products in such areas. Speaking about AI, I can say that it's kind of quick to set up and get it running. I can't say specifically. We have worked on a lot of projects. We have worked with document processing projects a lot. In those cases, if you were asking about specific projects, I can remember a recent project where we were trying to digitize documents using manual annotation and automated ML models, but there, we didn't use SageMaker. We used Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, which is under the umbrella of SageMaker. If you use Ground Truth, it's a SageMaker product. We were using SageMaker Ground Truth, which is pretty handy because it sits well in the environment. If you are specifically asking how it accelerated the process, it was easy to set up, and we just got going in less than a week. So, yeah, I can think of that example. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
I would rate Amazon SageMaker a nine out of ten because while it has all the necessary features, there could be improvements in making the data flow more manageable.
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
The product can scale model training and deployment. It is one platform. It is easy to use. People who want to use the product must first focus on defining the workflow of their team without any tools and then see how the product adapts rather than trying to use all the features of the system. It can confuse us. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
I have not integrated Amazon SageMaker with other products in our company. If someone plans to use the free trial version of Amazon SageMaker, then the person should be aware that it is chargeable since Amazon has not mentioned it in a written format. For enterprise-level users, there is nothing to worry about since their organization will take care of the costs attached to the solution. I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
I am doing a benchmarking study between Databricks and Amazon SageMaker to determine the most cost-efficient and effective for our organization. Amazon SageMaker is a pretty good solution for users who don't have any knowledge about their data and want to try different scenarios. The solution is fast and uses less code. Overall, I rate Amazon SageMaker a seven out of ten.
Anyone doing on-prem at the moment for anything but their core datasets or legacy systems that can't be moved is just paying useless money. I rate Amazon SageMaker a seven out of ten. I'd recommend it to other users. It's worth syncing the time and effort into getting it running.
From an exploration perspective, for people who cannot afford hardware at the physical location, it would be good to use the services from a cloud for leverage. It is easy to scale up or down when operating on an AWS Cloud. Suppose we have an on-premises or hybrid solution. In that case, we need to look at the economic structure of the organization, after which bringing everything into a physical location can get really complex. I suggest others explore using AWS before deciding on future plans. I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
Amazon SageMaker is definitely not the best product out there. I recommend that one can quickly do prototyping on SageMaker. It is easy to take your workload to the AWS Cloud. Amazon SageMaker's setup is very fast, so you'll be able to validate all your hypotheses pretty fast. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I recommend the tool for document processing and would rate it an eight out of ten.
I rate Amazon SageMaker a seven out of ten.
I would give SageMaker a rating of six out of ten.
I think for anyone using SageMaker it will help automate pipelines, and make it easier than doing the process manually. For anyone already on the AWS platform, they should definitely make use of it. I would rate this product an eight out of 10.
Myself and certain people in my team have just begun the training. There is an eight-hour training video to assist with learning how to use this solution. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
My advice to anybody who is considering this solution is to think about using multiple cloud services. This solution is really good but it has a few problems. In terms of deployment, it is a clear winner. For developing machine learning models, taking the user experience into account, I would probably still opt for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. Overall, there are a few improvements that I want but SageMaker is pretty good. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
I am not exposed to Amazon SageMaker but I know it's capabilities. I know exactly what we can do and how we can do it. We have been provided with several solutions for image processing, speech processing, and text processing. They have provided a built-in solution for every task. You can use tools for deploying your model, you just have to plug and play. There is no cessation from what I can see. Whatever they have in the industry, they can solve 98% of the use cases. There is also data engineering which is quite important. It's where the real work is done. Amazon has already provided a free slot for each of the services that we have done. With Amazon SageMaker, however, I have not seen that. I have not yet explored everything, but they are doing good work. In terms of the dashboard, I can say that I have not explored the visualization aspect very much, but they have their tools. I don't know how flexible it is and how much customization you can do. That's something on the visualization side that I don't enjoy very much. My interests are mostly towards data engineering or data science. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.