Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps. SageMaker Studio gives you complete access, control, and visibility into each step required to build, train, and deploy models. You can quickly upload data, create new notebooks, train and tune models, move back and forth between steps to adjust experiments, compare results, and deploy models to production all in one place, making you much more productive. All ML development activities including notebooks, experiment management, automatic model creation, debugging, and model drift detection can be performed within the unified SageMaker Studio visual interface.

Managing compute instances to view, run, or share a notebook is tedious. Amazon SageMaker Notebooks provide one-click Jupyter notebooks that you can start working with in seconds. The underlying compute resources are fully elastic, so you can easily dial up or down the available resources and the changes take place automatically in the background without interrupting your work. SageMaker also enables one-click sharing of notebooks. All code dependencies are automatically captured, so you can easily collaborate with others. They’ll get the exact same notebook, saved in the same place.

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot is the industry’s first automated machine learning capability that gives you complete control and visibility into your ML models. Typical approaches to automated machine learning do not give you the insights into the data used in creating the model or the logic that went into creating the model. As a result, even if the model is mediocre, there is no way to evolve it. Also, you don’t have the flexibility to make trade-offs such as sacrificing some accuracy for lower latency predictions since typical automated ML solutions provide only one model to choose from.

SageMaker Autopilot automatically inspects raw data, applies feature processors, picks the best set of algorithms, trains and tunes multiple models, tracks their performance, and then ranks the models based on performance, all with just a few clicks. The result is the best performing model that you can deploy at a fraction of the time normally required to train the model. You get full visibility into how the model was created and what’s in it and SageMaker Autopilot integrates with Amazon SageMaker Studio. You can explore up to 50 different models generated by SageMaker Autopilot inside SageMaker Studio so it’s easy to pick the best model for your use case. SageMaker Autopilot can be used by people without machine learning experience to easily produce a model or it can be used by experienced developers to quickly develop a baseline model on which teams can further iterate.

Successful machine learning models are built on the shoulders of large volumes of high-quality training data. But, the process to create the training data necessary to build these models is often expensive, complicated, and time-consuming. Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth helps you build and manage highly accurate training datasets quickly. Ground Truth offers easy access to labelers through Amazon Mechanical Turk and provides them with pre-built workflows and interfaces for common labeling tasks. You can also use your own labelers or use vendors recommended by Amazon through Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Additionally, Ground Truth continuously learns from labels done by humans to make high quality, automatic annotations to significantly lower labeling costs.

Amazon SageMaker Experiments helps you organize and track iterations to machine learning models. Training an ML model typically entails many iterations to isolate and measure the impact of changing data sets, algorithm versions, and model parameters. You produce hundreds of artifacts such as models, training data, platform configurations, parameter settings, and training metrics during these iterations. Often cumbersome mechanisms like spreadsheets are used to track these experiments.

SageMaker Experiments helps you manage iterations by automatically capturing the input parameters, configurations, and results, and storing them as ‘experiments’. You can work within the visual interface of SageMaker Studio, where you can browse active experiments, search for previous experiments by their characteristics, review previous experiments with their results, and compare experiment results visually.

The ML training process is largely opaque and the time it takes to train a model can be long and difficult to optimize. As a result, it is often difficult to interpret and explain models. Amazon SageMaker Debugger makes the training process more transparent by automatically capturing real-time metrics during training such as training and validation, confusion matrices, and learning gradients to help improve model accuracy.

The metrics from SageMaker Debugger can be visualized in SageMaker Studio for easy understanding. SageMaker Debugger can also generate warnings and remediation advice when common training problems are detected. With SageMaker Debugger, you can interpret how a model is working, representing an early step towards model explainability.

Amazon’ TensorFlow optimizations provide near-linear scaling efficiency across hundreds of GPUs to operate at cloud scale without a lot of processing overhead to train more accurate, more sophisticated models in much less time.

Amazon SageMaker provides Managed Spot Training to help you to reduce training costs by up to 90%. This capability uses Amazon EC2 Spot instances, which is spare Amazon Web Services compute capacity. Training jobs are automatically run when compute capacity becomes available and are made resilient to interruptions caused by changes in capacity, allowing you to save cost when you have flexibility with when to run training jobs.