Create or open an Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab notebook - Amazon SageMaker
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Create or open an Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab notebook

When you create a notebook in Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab or open a notebook in Studio Lab, you must select a kernel for the notebook. The following topics describe how to create and open notebooks in Studio Lab.

For information about shutting down the notebook, see Shut down resources.

Open a Studio Lab notebook

Studio Lab can only open notebooks listed in the Studio Lab file browser. To clone a notebook into your file browser from an external repository, see Use external resources in Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab.

To open a notebook

  1. In the left sidebar, choose the File Browser icon ( ) to display the file browser.

  2. Browse to a notebook file and double-click it to open the notebook in a new tab.

Create a notebook from the file menu

To create a notebook from the File menu

  1. From the Studio Lab menu, choose File, choose New, and then choose Notebook.

  2. To use the default kernel, in the Select Kernel dialog box, choose Select. Otherwise, to select a different kernel, use the dropdown menu.

Create a notebook from the Launcher

To create a notebook from the Launcher

  1. Open the Launcher by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + L.

    Alternatively, you can open Launcher from the left sidebar: Choose the File Browser icon, and then choose the plus (+) icon.

  2. To use the default kernel from the Launcher, under Notebook, choose default:Python. Otherwise, select a different kernel.

After you choose the kernel, your notebook launches and opens in a new Studio Lab tab.

To view the notebook's kernel session, in the left sidebar, choose the Running Terminals and Kernels icon ( ). You can stop the notebook's kernel session from this view.