AWS re:Invent 2017: Amazon SageMaker Launch

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service designed to help developers and data scientists build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly.

Significance

This event marked the official entry of AWS into the end-to-end managed ML platform space, signaling a major strategic shift to democratize AI and directly tackle the MLOps challenge for customers.