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Part 1: Understanding Amazon SageMaker

Part 1: Understanding Amazon SageMaker

via Dev.toNiharika Pujari

My first impression of SageMaker When I first came across Amazon SageMaker, I assumed it was one of those AWS services that made more sense to data scientists than to software engineers. I had seen the name many times, but I still did not have a clear answer to one basic question: What is SageMaker actually for? At first, I thought of it as simply "the AWS machine learning service." But that description felt too broad to be useful. The better way I understand it now is this: Amazon SageMaker is a managed AWS platform that helps teams build, train, deploy, and work with machine learning systems without having to assemble every part of the workflow from scratch. That was the mental shift I needed. The question that helped me understand it As a software engineer, I usually understand new platforms by asking a simple question: What problem is this platform trying to remove from my day-to-day work? Once I looked at SageMaker that way, it started making much more sense. The real problem Sage

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