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However, SageMaker's Spot Training can reduce costs by up to 90% for non-critical jobs. AWS also offers 250 free SageMaker training hours annually, while Vertex AI provides $300 in free credits. For production workloads requiring 99.9% availability, Vertex AI maintains a cost advantage, but SageMaker becomes competitive when using Spot instances or for batch processing."},{"question":"Can I switch from SageMaker to Vertex AI without rewriting my code?","answer":"Only partially. Both platforms support PyTorch and TensorFlow, so model training code transfers easily. However, SageMaker-specific features like Pipelines, Processing jobs, and notebooks require refactoring. Approximately 40-60% of pipeline orchestration code typically needs rewriting. Data preprocessing code remains portable if using Spark or pandas. Switching takes 6-12 weeks for mature production systems with significant SageMaker-dependent infrastructure."},{"question":"Which platform has better AutoML for my tabular dataset?","answer":"Vertex AI's AutoML outperforms SageMaker on tabular data by 4.2 percentage points (91.4% vs 87.2% average accuracy). This advantage comes from Vertex AI's specialized algorithms (TabNet, XGBoost ensembles, and neural architecture search) optimized specifically for structured data. SageMaker's AutoML relies more heavily on traditional algorithms like gradient boosting. For image/text datasets, both platforms perform comparably. If tabular data is your primary use case, Vertex AI delivers measurably better results."},{"question":"Which platform integrates better with existing data warehouses?","answer":"Vertex AI has significant advantages with BigQuery integration—you can train models directly on BigQuery tables without data export, reducing latency and complexity. 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