We performed a comparison between Amazon SageMaker and Anaconda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is that you don't have to do any programming in order to perform some of your use cases."
"The deployment is very good, where you only need to press a few buttons."
"Feature Store, CodeCommit, versioning, model control, and CI/CD pipelines are the most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker."
"The solution is easy to scale...The documentation and online community support have been sufficient for us so far."
"The tool has made client management easier where patients need to upload their health records and we can use the tool to understand details on treatment date, amount, etc."
"The few projects we have done have been promising."
"The solution's ability to improve work at my organization stems from the ensemble model and a combination of various models it provides."
"The most advantageous feature is the logic building."
"With Anaconda Navigator, we have been able to use multiple IDEs such as JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, and RStudio in one place. The platform-agnostic package manager, "Conda", makes life easy when it comes to managing and installing packages."
"The virtual environment is very good."
"The product is responsive, sleek and has a beautiful interface that is pleasant to use. It helps users to easily share code."
"The best part of Anaconda is the media distribution that comes as part of it. It gets us started very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the Jupyter notebook that allows us to write the Python code, compile it on the fly, and then look at the results."
"I can use Anaconda for non-heavy tasks."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution needs to be cheaper since it now charges per document for extraction."
"SageMaker would be improved with the addition of reporting services."
"In general, improvements are needed on the performance side of the product's graphical user interface-related area since it consumes a lot of time for a user."
"I would suggest that Amazon SageMaker provide free slots to allow customers to practice, such as a free slot to try out working with a Sandbox."
"The training modules could be enhanced. We had to take in-person training to fully understand SageMaker, and while the trainers were great, I think more comprehensive online modules would be helpful."
"Creating notebook instances for multiple users is pretty expensive in Amazon SageMaker."
"The product must provide better documentation."
"I would say the IDE is quite immature, but it is still in its infancy, so I expect it to get better over time."
"It crashes once in a while. In case of a reboot or something unexpected, the unseen code part will get diminished, and it relatively takes longer than other applications when a reboot is happening. They can improve in these areas. They can also bring some database software. They have software for analytics and virtualization. However, they don't have any software for the database."
"One thing that hurts the product is that the company is not doing more to advertise it as a solution and make it more well known."
"Anaconda should be optimized for RAM consumption."
"When you install Anaconda for the first time, it's really difficult to update it."
"Having a small guide or video on the tool would help learn how to use it and what the features are."
"The ability to schedule scripts for the building and monitoring of jobs would be an advantage for this platform."
"The interface could be improved. Other solutions, like Visual Studio, have much better UI."
"One feature that I would like to see is being able to use a different language in a different cell, which would allow me to mix R and Python together."
Amazon SageMaker is ranked 5th in Data Science Platforms with 12 reviews while Anaconda is ranked 18th in Data Science Platforms with 1 review. Amazon SageMaker is rated 7.2, while Anaconda is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon SageMaker writes "It’s low-price point makes it a great entry into machine learning, but it is difficult to learn to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Anaconda writes "Offers free version and is helpful to handle small-scale workloads". Amazon SageMaker is most compared with Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Domino Data Science Platform and Google Cloud AI Platform, whereas Anaconda is most compared with Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Power BI, IBM SPSS Statistics and Domino Data Science Platform.
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