Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. The all-new SageMaker includes virtually all of the components you need for data exploration, preparation and integration, big data processing, fast SQL analytics, machine learning (ML) model development and training, and generative AI application development.

The current Amazon SageMaker has been renamed to Amazon SageMaker AI. SageMaker AI is integrated within the next generation of SageMaker while also being available as a standalone service for those who wish to focus specifically on building, training, and deploying AI and ML models at scale.

Highlights of the new Amazon SageMaker
At its core is SageMaker Unified Studio (preview), a single data and AI development environment. It brings together functionality and tools from the range of standalone “studios,” query editors, and visual tools that we have today in Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and the existing SageMaker Studio. We’ve also integrated Amazon Bedrock IDE (preview), an updated version of Amazon Bedrock Studio, to build and customize generative AI applications. In addition, Amazon Q provides AI assistance throughout your workflows in SageMaker.

Here’s a list of key capabilities:

• Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) – Build with all your data and tools for analytics and AI in a single environment.
• Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse – Unify data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, Amazon Redshift data warehouses, and third-party and federated data sources with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.
• Data and AI Governance – Securely discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI with Amazon SageMaker Catalog, built on Amazon DataZone.
• Data Processing – Analyze, prepare, and integrate data for analytics and AI using open source frameworks on Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue.
• Model development – Build, train, and deploy ML and foundation models (FMs) with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows with Amazon SageMaker AI.
• Generative AI app development – Build and scale generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock.
• SQL analytics – Gain insights with Amazon Redshift, the most price-performant SQL engine.

In this post, I give you a quick tour of the new SageMaker Unified Studio experience and how to get started with data processing, model development, and generative AI app development.

Working with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview)
With SageMaker Unified Studio, you can discover your data and put it to work using familiar AWS tools to complete end-to-end development workflows, including data analysis, data processing, model training, and generative AI app building, in a single governed environment.

An integrated SQL editor lets you query data from multiple sources, and a visual extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool simplifies the creation of data integration and transformation workflows. New unified Jupyter notebooks enable seamless work across different compute services and clusters. With the new built-in data catalog functionality, you can find, access, and query data and AI assets across your organization. Amazon Q is integrated to streamline tasks across the development lifecycle.

Let’s explore the individual capabilities in more detail.

Data processing
SageMaker integrates with SageMaker Lakehouse and lets you analyze, prepare, integrate, and orchestrate your data in a unified experience. You can integrate and process data from various sources using the provided connectivity options.

Start by creating a project in SageMaker Unified Studio, choosing the SQL analytics or data analytics and AI-ML model development project profile. Projects are a place to collaborate with your colleagues, share data, and use tools to work with data in a secure way. Project profiles in SageMaker define the preconfigured set of resources and tools that are provisioned when you create a new project. In your project, choose Data in the left menu and start adding data sources.

The built-in SQL query editor lets you query your data stored in data lakes, data warehouses, databases, and applications directly within SageMaker Unified Studio. In the top menu of SageMaker Unified Studio, select Build and choose Query Editor to get started. Also, try creating SQL queries using natural language with Amazon Q while you’re at it.

You should also explore the built-in visual ETL tool to create data integration and transformation workflows using a visual, drag-and-drop interface. In the top menu, select Build and choose Visual ETL flow to get started.

If Amazon Q is enabled, you can also use generative AI to author flows. Visual ETL comes with a wide range of data connectors, pre-built transformations, and features such as scheduling, monitoring, and data previewing to streamline your data workflows.

Model development
SageMaker Unified Studio includes capabilities from SageMaker AI, which provides infrastructure, tools, and workflows for the entire ML lifecycle. From the top menu, select Build to access tools for data preparation, model training, experiment tracking, pipeline creation, and orchestration. You can also use these tools for model deployment and inference, machine learning operations (MLOps) implementation, model monitoring and evaluation, as well as governance and compliance.

To start your model development, create a project in SageMaker Unified Studio using the data analytics and AI-ML model development project profile and explore the new unified Jupyter notebooks. In the top menu, select Build and choose JupyterLab. You can use the new unified notebooks to seamlessly work across different compute services and clusters. You can use these notebooks to switch between environments without leaving your workspace, streamlining your model development process.

You can also use Amazon Q Developer to assist with tasks such as code generation, debugging, and optimization throughout your model development process.

Generative AI app development
Use the new Amazon Bedrock IDE to develop generative AI applications within Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. The Amazon Bedrock IDE includes tools to build and customize generative AI applications using FMs and advanced capabilities such as Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Amazon Bedrock Agents, and Amazon Bedrock Flows to create tailored solutions aligned with your requirements and responsible AI guidelines.

Choose Discover in the top menu of SageMaker Unified Studio to browse Amazon Bedrock models or experiment with the model playgrounds.

Create a project using the GenAI Application Development profile to start building generative AI applications. Choose Build in the top menu of SageMaker Unified Studio and select Chat agent.

With the Amazon Bedrock IDE, you can build chat agents and create knowledge bases from your proprietary data sources with just a few clicks, enabling Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You can add guardrails to promote safe AI interactions and create functions to integrate with any system. With built-in model evaluation features, you can test and optimize your AI applications’ performance while collaborating with your team. Design flows for deterministic genAI-powered workflows, and when ready, share your applications or prompts within the domain or export them for deployment anywhere—all while maintaining control of your project and domain assets.

For a detailed description of all Amazon SageMaker capabilities, check the SageMaker Unified Studio User Guide.

Getting started
To begin using SageMaker Unified Studio, administrators need to complete several setup steps. This includes setting up AWS IAM Identity Center, configuring the necessary virtual private cloud (VPC) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, creating a SageMaker domain, and enabling Amazon Q Developer Pro. Instead of IAM Identity Center, you can also configure SAML through IAM federation for user management.

After the environment is configured, users sign in through the provided SageMaker Unified Studio domain URL with single sign-on. You can create projects to collaborate with team members, choosing from pre-configured project profiles for different use cases. Each project connects to a Git repository for version control and includes an example unified Jupyter notebook to get you started.

For detailed setup instructions, check the SageMaker Unified Studio Administrator Guide.

Now available
The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is available today in the US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland) AWS Regions. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and Amazon Bedrock IDE are available today in preview in these AWS Regions. Check the full Region list for future updates.

For pricing information, visit Amazon SageMaker pricing and Amazon Bedrock pricing. To learn more, visit Amazon SageMaker, SageMaker Unified Studio, and Amazon Bedrock IDE.

Existing Amazon Bedrock Studio preview domains will be available until February 28, 2025, but you may not create new workspaces. To experience the advanced features of Bedrock IDE, create a new SageMaker domain following the instructions in the Administrator Guide.

Give the new Amazon SageMaker a try in the console today and let us know what you think! Send feedback to AWS re:Post for Amazon SageMaker or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Antje

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