Amazon SageMaker Autopilot Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Visual, no-code machine learning interface for business analysts and citizen data scientists to prepare data and automatically build, train, and deploy ML models.
Naming timeline
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Launched as an automated machine learning (AutoML) capability with full visibility into generated notebooks.
- Amazon SageMaker CanvasCurrent name
Autopilot's UI consolidated into the no-code visual ML workspace Amazon SageMaker Canvas within the updated Amazon SageMaker Studio experience.
What is Amazon SageMaker Autopilot called now?
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot was consolidated into Amazon SageMaker Canvas, with the latest change on 30 November 2023 (Autopilot UI Consolidated into SageMaker Canvas (Canvas Launched Nov 30, 2021)). Visual, no-code machine learning interface for business analysts and citizen data scientists to prepare data and automatically build, train, and deploy ML models. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- SageMaker Autopilot
- AutoML on SageMaker
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | sagemaker |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws sagemaker create-auto-ml-job-v2 aws sagemaker describe-auto-ml-job-v2 aws sagemaker create-app |
| IAM Actions & Policies | sagemaker:CreateAutoMLJobV2 sagemaker:DescribeAutoMLJobV2 arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSageMakerCanvasFullAccess |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_sagemaker_app aws_sagemaker_domain |
The standalone Autopilot Studio Classic UI was consolidated into Canvas, while programmatic AutoML APIs (CreateAutoMLJobV2) remain active in the sagemaker namespace.
Notes & disambiguation
- As of November 30, 2023, the standalone Amazon SageMaker Autopilot UI was consolidated into Amazon SageMaker Canvas as part of the updated Amazon SageMaker Studio experience.
- In July 2024, AWS also placed Amazon Forecast into maintenance mode and directed time-series forecasting users to transition to Amazon SageMaker Canvas.
- While the visual AutoML UI now lives in SageMaker Canvas, developers with coding experience continue to use the underlying Autopilot APIs (CreateAutoMLJob / CreateAutoMLJobV2) in the sagemaker SDK and CLI.
Sources & official documentation
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