JupyterLab versioning - Amazon SageMaker
JupyterLab 3Creating a notebook with your JupyterLab versionView the JupyterLab version of a notebook from the console
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JupyterLab versioning

The Amazon SageMaker notebook instance interface is based on JupyterLab, which is a web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data. Notebooks now support using either JupyterLab 1 or JupyterLab 3. A single notebook instance can run a single instance of JupyterLab (at most). You can have multiple notebook instances with different JupyterLab versions.

You can configure your notebook to run your preferred JupyterLab version by selecting the appropriate platform identifier. Use either the Amazon CLI or the SageMaker console when creating your notebook instance. For more information about platform identifiers, see Amazon Linux 2 vs Amazon Linux notebook instances. If you don’t explicitly configure a platform identifier, your notebook instance defaults to running JupyterLab 1.

JupyterLab 3

JupyterLab 3 support is available only on the Amazon Linux 2 operating system platform. JupyterLab 3 includes the following features that are not available in JupyterLab 1. For more information about these features, see JupyterLab 3.0 is released!.

  • Visual debugger when using the following kernels:

    • conda_pytorch_p38

    • conda_tensorflow2_p38

    • conda_amazonei_pytorch_latest_p37

  • File browser filter

  • Table of Contents (TOC)

  • Multi-language support

  • Simple mode

  • Single interface mode

  • Live editing SVG files with updated rendering

  • User interface for notebook cell tags

Important changes to JupyterLab 3

For information about important changes when using JupyterLab 3, see the following JupyterLab change logs:

Package version changes

JupyterLab 3 has the following package version changes from JupyterLab 1:

  • JupyterLab has been upgraded from 1.x to 3.x.

  • Jupyter notebook has been upgraded from 5.x to 6.x.

  • jupyterlab-git has been updated to version 0.37.1.

  • nbserverproxy 0.x (0.3.2) has been replaced with jupyter-server-proxy 3.x (3.2.1).

Creating a notebook with your JupyterLab version

You can select the JupyterLab version when creating your notebook instance from the console following the steps in Create a Notebook Instance.

You can also select the JupyterLab version by passing the platform-identifier parameter when creating your notebook instance using the Amazon CLI as follows: 

create-notebook-instance --notebook-instance-name <NEW_NOTEBOOK_NAME> \
--instance-type <INSTANCE_TYPE> \
--role-arn <YOUR_ROLE_ARN> \
--platform-identifier <PLATFORM_TO_USE>

View the JupyterLab version of a notebook from the console

You can view the JupyterLab version of a notebook using the following procedure:

  1. Open the Amazon SageMaker console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/sagemaker/.

  2. From the left navigation, select Notebook.

  3. From the dropdown menu, select Notebook instances to navigate to the Notebook instances page.

  4. From the list of notebook instances, select your notebook instance name.

  5. On the Notebook instance settings page, view the Platform Identifier to see the JupyterLab version of the notebook.