How does AWS SageMaker handle distributed training?

Updated May 5, 2026

Short answer

SageMaker uses distributed training by splitting data and model computation across multiple instances.

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SageMaker supports data parallelism and model parallelism. In data parallelism, each worker trains on a subset of data. In model parallelism, large models are split across GPUs. It uses frameworks like Horovod and DeepSpeed for synchronization.

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