AL2023 notebook instances - Amazon SageMaker AI
Supported instance typesAvailable kernels
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AL2023 notebook instances

Amazon SageMaker notebook instances currently support AL2023 operating systems. AL2023 is now the latest and recommended operating system for notebook instances. You can select the operating system that your notebook instance is based on when you create the notebook instance.

SageMaker AI supports notebook instances based on the following AL2023 operating systems.

  • notebook-al2023-v1: These notebook instances support JupyterLab version 4. For information about JupyterLab versions, see JupyterLab versioning.

Supported instance types

AL2023 supports instance types listed under Notebook Instances in SageMaker AI Pricing, with the exception that AL2023 does not support ml.p2, ml.p3, ml.g3 instances.

Available kernels

The following table gives information about the available kernels for SageMaker notebook instances. All of these images are supported on notebook instances based on the notebook-al2023-v1 operating system.

Kernel name Description
R A kernel used to perform data analysis and visualization using R code from a Jupyter notebook.
Sparkmagic (PySpark) A kernel used to do data science with remote Spark clusters from Jupyter notebooks using the Python programming language. This kernel comes with Python 3.10.
Sparkmagic (Spark) A kernel used to do data science with remote Spark clusters from Jupyter notebooks using the Scala programming language. This kernel comes with Python 3.10.
Sparkmagic (SparkR) A kernel used to do data science with remote Spark clusters from Jupyter notebooks using the R programming language. This kernel comes with Python 3.10.
conda_python3 A conda environment that comes pre-installed with popular packages for data science and machine learning. This kernel comes with Python 3.10.
conda_pytorch A conda environment that comes pre-installed with PyTorch version 2.7.0, as well as popular data science and machine learning packages. This kernel comes with Python 3.10.