Is SageMaker free?
AWS Free Tier includes 2 months of SageMaker with limited hours. After that, pay for compute, storage, and features used. Can get expensive quickly for serious ML work.
What is Amazon SageMaker?
SageMaker is AWS's machine learning platform. Build, train, and deploy ML models at scale. Includes notebooks, training infrastructure, model hosting, and MLOps tools.
How does SageMaker pricing work?
Pay for notebook instances, training jobs, and inference endpoints separately. Prices vary by instance type. Training a model can cost dollars to thousands depending on scale.
What can you do with SageMaker?
Jupyter notebooks for experimentation, managed training on GPU clusters, model hosting with auto-scaling, MLOps pipelines, built-in algorithms, and now SageMaker Studio for collaboration.
SageMaker vs Google Vertex AI?
Both are comprehensive ML platforms. SageMaker integrates better with AWS services. Vertex AI has AutoML strength. Choose based on your cloud provider preference.