SageMaker Containers

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service for data science and machine learning (ML) workflows. You can use Amazon SageMaker to simplify the process of building, training, and deploying ML models. To train a model, you can include your training script and dependencies in a Docker container that runs your training code. A container provides an effectively isolated environment, ensuring a consistent runtime and reliable training process. The SageMaker Training Toolkit can be easily added to any Docker container, making it compatible with SageMaker for training models. If you use a prebuilt SageMaker Docker image for training, this library may already be included. Very often, an entry point needs additional information from the container that is not available in hyperparameters. SageMaker Containers writes this information as environment variables that are available inside the script.