Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now allows you to bring your own image (BYOI)

Today, AWS announced the ability to bring your own image (BYOI) to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This feature benefits customers who have regulatory and compliance requirements or who prefer not to use the framework containers that come with the default SageMaker Distribution image.

BYOI provides you the flexibility to customize the image by removing unnecessary frameworks and adding new dependencies or security containers as per your requirement. It also provides the code reproducibility guarantees on the containers that you use across development and production environements. The SageMaker Distribution image is available on GitHub, you can download the image inspect its contents and use it to build your custom image. The base image contains all the necessary packages and extensions which are required to execute the code on SageMaker Unified Studio, therefore we recommend you to build your own image using the SageMaker Distribution version 2.6 and onwards.

The ability to bring your own images is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where the next generation of Amazon SageMaker is available. See the supported regions list for more details. For instructions on how to get started, visit the Amazon SageMaker documentation.