This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/announcing-rstudio-on-amazon-sagemaker
Data Science in the Cloud As more organizations migrate their data science work to the cloud, they naturally want to bring along their favorite data science tools, including RStudio, R, and Python. These organizations are embracing the cloud to achieve various goals, including to:
Simplify and reduce startup costs. Promote collaboration between organizations or groups. Mitigate the high costs of maintaining their own computing infrastructure. Scale to meet variable demand.