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Google Colab vs Amazon Sagemaker:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024

Comparing two data science notebooks.

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Google Colab

Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
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Amazon Sagemaker

Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers to prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML.

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Google Colab

Amazon Sagemaker

Setup

Is it managed?

Is it managed?

Fully managed (setup in minutes)
Fully managed (setup in hours)

Can you self-host?

Can you self-host?

No, you must use a managed offering
No, you must use a managed offering

Features

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Is it Jupyter compatible?

Jupyter-compatible
Jupyter-compatible

Programming languages

Programming languages

Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

What kind of data sources can you connect to?

Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Google Drive
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
AWS

What kind of data visualization can you do?

What kind of data visualization can you do?

Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)

Reactivity

Reactivity

No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No reactivity, you decide the execution order

Notebook scheduling

Notebook scheduling

No notebook scheduling
Notebook scheduling with additional tools

Management

Reproducibility

Reproducibility

There is no support for reproducibility
There is no support for reproducibility

Version history

Version history

No version history
File-based (use Git)

Collaborative editing

Collaborative editing

No support for collaborative editors
No support for collaborative editors

Comments

Comments

No support for comments
File-based (use GitHub)

Notebook organization

Notebook organization

View notebooks in a list
View notebooks in a list

Licensing

License

License

Proprietary
Proprietary

Price

Price

Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute
Free tier
Pay for compute

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