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

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - DECEMBER 3: Attendees walk through an expo hall at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services)

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.  

SageMaker, which transformed ...