Amazon Deep Learning AMIs vs. Keras

Suitable: 1. Best for quickly setting up an instance with pre-installed libraries. 2. Ideal for people in Deep Learning space who struggle with Cuda / Nvidia driver installations. Not suitable: 1. People who want to install custom libraries or different version of those. 2. In these cases, updating the version of libraries many times leads to version mismatch which can cause many errors.

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I would recommend it for use when anyone wants to quickly develop a neural network. Or if a user is solving any machine learning problem that includes deep learning. And this kind of problem will be like image recognition, face recognition, doing some text analysis using deep learning which includes LSTM or some other algorithm.

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• Setting up environment
• Support for different types of machines
• Perfect for Machine Learning / Deep Learning use cases
• Nvidia / Cuda / Conda support easily

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• Implementing neural networks and deep learning models is easy with this.
• Data processing is easy with Python and Keras. Keras helps a lot and has a good collection of functions to do data processing.
• It has good integration with other devices like Android.

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• Some aspects of the User Interface are quite confusing and activating packages can be a bit convoluted
• It can be a bit confusing to switch between frameworks for novice users

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• I didn't face any issue so far.
• The only thing, you can't modify everything in this. So it's not recommended for constructing highly optimised algorithms.

The reason for giving this much rating. 1. It makes my job really easy and fast. 2. Strong community support. 3. Overall cost.

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Keras have really good support along with the strong community over the internet. So in case you stuck, It won't so hard to get out from it.

Both of these services provide similar functionality and from my experience both are top class services which cover most of your needs. I think ultimately it comes down to what you need each service for. For example Amazon DL AMIs allows for clustering by default meaning I am able to run several clustering algorithms without a problem whereas IBM Watson Studio doesn't provide this functionality. They both provide a wide range of default packages such as Amazon providing caffe-2 and IBM providing sci-kitlearn. My main point is that both are very good services which have very similar functionality, you just need to think about the costs, suitability of features and integration with other services you are using.

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As Keras is the high level API, so using Keras, we don't have to be bothered by the low level TensorFlow complexity, and we can reduce a lot coding and testing efforts.

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• It has made our Data Science/ Machine Learning Courses easier to manage/ need less human input therefore allowing us to increase the cohort size for this degree
• It has unified a lot of technologies reducing the load on our IT team

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• It helped me in learning the basic concept of deep learning by having hands-on experience.
• It has helped us to implement our NN with very little time.
• It doesn't give you the whole power to customize your neural network. If you want that then you have to shift to TensorFLow

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