AWS doubles down on infrastructure as strategy in the AI race with SageMaker upgrades

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AWS seeks to extend its market position with updates to SageMaker, its machine learning and AI model training and inference platform, adding new observability capabilities, connected coding environments and GPU cluster performance management.

However, AWS continues to face competition from Google and Microsoft, which also offer many features that help accelerate AI training and inference.

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SageMaker, which transformed into a unified hub for integrating data sources and accessing machine learning tools in 2024, will add features that provide insight into why model performance slows and offer AWS customers more control over the amount of compute allocated for model development.