Reducing Labeling and Inference Cost of SageMaker for Construction

Tech Company

Overview

Sphere along with our AI and ML partners, worked with a construction-tech company over a few weeks to comprehensively optimize their SageMaker installation.

The Challenge

This construction-tech company had recently started with SageMaker on AWS, but was not getting the desired cost-basis they desired. This company was also looking to replace their Segmentation model in an effort to reduce infrastructure costs.

How It Was Solved

Our team conducted a comprehensive checkup of the partner’s SageMaker instance through the following project model:

• ML Checkup: 2-4 hour meetings per week, talking with the teams and mapping the state of ML

• Develop a Path to ML/Improve Current Metrics: Working with stakeholders, diving into the existing model and building project metrics/KPI’s for success

• Build, Operate and Transfer: Complete buildout of the ML solution on SageMaker

The Results

Reduced SageMaker inference cost by 40% by…

Reduced SageMaker inference cost by 40% by updating endpoint configurations

Built SageMaker Groundtruth Pipeline to tag 30,000+ images

minimized the need for labor through AI assisted labeling, ultimately reducing the cost of labeling by 70%.

Trained SageMaker Bounding Boxes model to replace their Segmentation model

reducing the output size by a factor of 100 and reduced the infrastructure costs for inference jobs.

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VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.

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VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors