Amazon AWS unveils RedShift ML to 'bring machine learning to more builders'

Amazon's vice president of machine learning, Swami Sivasubramanian, Tuesday offered a keynote on machine learning for week two of Amazon's re:Invent conference for Amazon Web Services. A few brilliant strokes of ingenuity, combined with a large dose of capitalism, made the e-retailer into the world's cloud services leader. During the keynote, Sivasubramanian announced the company's middleware platform for machine learning, SageMaker, will be able going forward to automatically break up the parts of a large neural net and distribute those parts across multiple computers. This form of parallel computing, known as model parallelism, is usually something that takes substantial effort. The new capability, he said, was part of a theme of bringing machine learning, even large deep learning forms, to more individuals than the small group of scientists with the skills for developing it.