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ML in 2025: Which Platform Wins — SageMaker or Azure ML? ⚔️

If you’re building or scaling ML projects in 2025, chances are you’ve already bumped into the same question we had:

Do you go with AWS SageMaker or Azure Machine Learning?

Both platforms offer powerful tools, automation features, and enterprise-level support. But they also come with key differences, in pricing models, ease of use, ecosystem fit, and even how they handle MLOps workflows.

We made a side-by-side comparison in video form to make the choice easier. Here’s what we cover:

🧠 Ease of use – How beginner-friendly is each platform, and what’s the learning curve like?

🔌 Integrations – How well do they plug into their respective cloud ecosystems (and open-source tools)?

🚀 Performance & scaling – How do they handle large models, training pipelines, and distributed workloads?

💵 Pricing flexibility – Which one gives you more control over costs?

🔐 Security & compliance – Important if you're working in regulated industries like healthcare or finance.

Whether you're a solo dev experimenting with models, or working on production-level ML pipelines with a team, these are the trade-offs worth understanding.

Watch the full comparison here, it's quick, straight to the point, and made for engineers trying to make the best decision for their stack in 2025.

And if you're already using one of these platforms, we’d love to hear from you: What made you choose it, and what’s your experience been like so far?

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