AWS's Web-based IDE for ML Development: SageMaker Studio

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle – they'll all vying to become the dominant force of gravity in the public cloud services market, and among the most fiercely fought over areas of cloud leadership is AI/machine learning enablement. Given that AI's TAM is roughly * and that the FAANGs are out ahead of everyone on AI expertise, it makes sense they would commercialize the technologies they use and that they've developed to attract enterprise AI customers to their platforms. A centerpiece of AWS's AI market strategy is SageMaker, a managed service that provides developers and data scientists who aren't necessarily ML experts with the tools to build, train and deploy ML models. Launched two years ago, AWS has designed SageMaker to lighten the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process. Since its inception, the product suite has been expanded into SageMaker Studio, which AWS CEO Andy Jassy, at the annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, described as an integrated, web-based IDE (interactive development environment) for machine learning that lets developers collect and store code, notebooks, data sets, settings and project folders in a single setting.