An introduction to AWS and SageMaker

This section provides a high-level overview of AWS and delves into SageMaker, AWS’ ML offering.

AWS

AWS is one of the leading players in the global cloud computing marketplace. AWS offers many cloud-based products and services, including databases, machine learning (ML), analytics, networking, storage, developer tools, and enterprise applications. The idea behind AWS is to offer businesses an affordable and scalable solution to their computing needs, regardless of their size or industry.

A key advantage of AWS is elasticity, meaning servers and services can be stopped and started quickly and at will, scaling from zero machines to thousands. The elasticity of the services goes hand in hand with its primary pricing model of pay-as-you-go, meaning customers only pay for the services and resources they use without any upfront costs or long-term contracts. This elasticity and pricing allow businesses to scale computing needs as needed...