Glue Interactive vs SageMaker Processing?

Hello! It depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Let us just talk about notebooks first - Sagemaker notebook (or even Glue notebook) is quite efficient for quick prototyping and analysis of data. For example, if you just want to make certain charts from a CSV or do quick data wrangling etc. then the Notebook is often the preferred choice. The notebook is also fantastic for documenting algorithms. The interactivity helps process step by step and to change your processing along based on the data that you would see. From a tooling perspective, the Glue notebooks provide the data engineer ability to run Jupyter notebok or Zeppelin notebook. SageMaker notebook is the tool preferred by data scientists and Machine learning engineers and provides the Jupyter notebook interface.

Sagemaker provides multiple computing options including ability to choose EC2 instances. in SageMaker Processing you can customize the execution environment, as you could provide a Docker image

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