Google Colab
Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
Google Colab vs Amazon Sagemaker:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
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.
Google Colab
Amazon Sagemaker
Setup
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
No notebook scheduling
Notebook scheduling with additional tools
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
There is no support for reproducibility
There is no support for reproducibility
No version history
File-based (use Git)
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