The correct answer is B. Use the Amazon SageMaker Model Registry to catalog the models. Create model groups for each model to manage the model versions and to maintain associated metadata.
The Amazon SageMaker Model Registry is a managed repository within SageMaker designed specifically for production-grade ML model lifecycle management. It allows organizations to catalog models, track multiple versions of a model, associate rich metadata, and manage deployment workflows in a scalable, controlled manner. Each model can belong to a model group, which acts as a container for all versions of that particular model. Versions can store training metrics, hyperparameters, model artifacts, and other key metadata, enabling reproducibility, auditing, and automated promotion between stages (e.g., Staging → Production).
Option A, while using the Model Registry, relies on manually tagging versions and creating key-value pairs to store metadata. This approach is error-prone, lacks structured versioning, and does not integrate with SageMaker’s deployment pipelines.
Options C and D suggest using Amazon ECR repositories. While ECR can store containerized model artifacts, it is not designed for ML-specific metadata, versioning, or automated model stage transitions. Using ECR alone would require custom-built solutions for metadata management, auditing, and version tracking, adding unnecessary operational overhead.
By leveraging the Model Registry with model groups, organizations can automate promotions, apply approval workflows, and track lineage efficiently, fully aligning with AWS best practices for ML model development and production readiness. This ensures compliance, reproducibility, and reduces operational complexity in enterprise AI platforms.
Using the Model Registry and model groups is the standard AWS-recommended approach for enterprise-scale model cataloging and version control, enabling teams to focus on model improvement rather than infrastructure management.
