AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote - SageMaker Announcement

Andy Jassy, then CEO of AWS, officially unveiled Amazon SageMaker to the world, touting it as an end-to-end managed service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

Significance

This marked the official entry of AWS into the integrated ML platform space, setting a new standard for how cloud providers would support the entire machine learning lifecycle. It positioned SageMaker as a critical tool for democratizing AI.