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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for Ray

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enhances Ray support with built-in observability, resilient training, accelerated inference, and managed development environments

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enhances support for Ray with built-in observability, resilient training, accelerated inference, and managed development environments. Data scientists can create, edit, monitor, and delete Ray clusters from a web-based interface in Amazon SageMaker Studio, attaching JupyterLab, a code editor, or a local IDE to a running Ray cluster for interactive iteration. HyperPod provides Grafana dashboards with metrics in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and one-click access to the Ray Dashboard. For training, node auto-recovery and hung job detection handle GPU faults and job hangs, while tiered checkpointing and task governance optimize compute utilization. For inference with Ray Serve, a tiered KV cache reduces time to the first token, and SageMaker JumpStart models can be deployed directly. Open-source Ray code runs unchanged, and users can adopt the purpose-built experience in SageMaker Studio or integrate individual capabilities into their own ML platform.

Why it matters

This update aims to reduce operational burden when running Ray on Kubernetes and improve development efficiency and training reliability

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