# Using interactive sessions with SageMaker AI Studio
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 Amazon Glue Interactive Sessions is an on-demand, serverless, Apache Spark runtime environment that data scientists and engineers can use to rapidly build, test, and run data preparation and analytics applications. You can initiate an Amazon Glue interactive session by starting a Amazon SageMaker AI Studio Classic notebook. 

For more information, see [ Prepare Data using Amazon Glue interactive sessions ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-notebooks-glue.html).