Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs

UpdateSep 15, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, making it easier and faster to find compute capacity for your workloads. Many AI training, fine-tuning, and data processing workloads run comparably well on any of several instance types or sizes.

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-sagemaker-training-processing-instance-pref-lists/

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