Amazon Web Services claims to have the broadest and most complete set of machine learning capabilities. I honestly don't know how the company can claim those superlatives with a straight face: Yes, the AWS machine learning offerings are broad and fairly complete and rather impressive, but so are those of Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Amazon SageMaker Clarify is the new add-on to the Amazon SageMaker machine learning ecosystem for Responsible AI. SageMaker Clarify integrates with SageMaker at three points: in the new Data Wrangler to detect data biases at import time, such as imbalanced classes in the training set, in the Experiments tab of SageMaker Studio to detect biases in the model after training and to explain the importance of features, and in the SageMaker Model Monitor, to detect bias shifts in a deployed model over time. Historically, AWS has presented its services as cloud-only.

Amazon Web Services claims to have the broadest and most complete set of machine learning capabilities. I honestly don't know how the company can claim those superlatives with a straight face: Yes, the AWS machine learning offerings are broad and fairly complete and rather impressive, but so are those of Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Amazon SageMaker Clarify is the new add-on to the Amazon SageMaker machine learning ecosystem for Responsible AI. SageMaker Clarify integrates with SageMaker at three points: in the new Data Wrangler to detect data biases at import time, such as imbalanced classes in the training set, in the Experiments tab of SageMaker Studio to detect biases in the model after training and to explain the importance of features, and in the SageMaker Model Monitor, to detect bias shifts in a deployed model over time. Historically, AWS has presented its services as cloud-only.

Today, we're extremely happy to announce Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor, a new capability of Amazon SageMaker that automatically monitors machine learning (ML) models in production, and alerts you when data quality issues appear. The first thing I learned when I started working with data is that there is no such thing as paying too much attention to data quality. Raise your hand if you've spent hours hunting down problems caused by unexpected NULL values or by exotic character encodings that somehow ended up in one of your databases. As models are literally built from large amounts of data, it's easy to see why ML practitioners spend so much time caring for their data sets. In particular, they make sure that data samples in the training set (used to train the model) and in the validation set (used to measure its accuracy) have the same statistical properties.

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.