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Amazon SageMaker -- What an absolute ripoff!
Sagemaker makes me hate my job
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If you're new to AWS, run away now! Basically, to use their services, you'll need a PhD in Internet Security or at least 10 years experience in IT to set it up. Then, they have a never ending cascade of help pages. You'll read one and think you can follow it, then it'll send you to one more. It just doesn't stop.
Amazon knows this. So with SageMaker, they lure you in with a push one-button solution. If you push it, you have to remember to turn everything off before exiting. And if you create an "end point", you have to go into a 10 tab side menu entitled "Inferences" to turn it off???? Not intuitive, not user-friendly. $300 dollars later I've learned my lesson. Don't fucking use this service!
It's like you forgot to turn the lights off at you house and you have to pay $20/ per day. Then the utility company came and hid all the light switches to turn it off at your neighbor's house. You didn't realize you were getting charged until your credit card bill showed up at the end of the month.
Take that $600 you're going to get charged and go put it towards a new computer. That's the lesson. Scalability my ass. (my luck this forum is probably moderated by the AWS sales department)