Notebooks and compute resourcesUtilities and files

Use the Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic Launcher

Important

As of November 30, 2023, the previous Amazon SageMaker Studio experience is now named Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic. The following section is specific to using the Studio Classic application. For information about using the updated Studio experience, see Amazon SageMaker Studio.

You can use the Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic Launcher to create notebooks and text files, and to launch terminals and interactive Python shells.

You can open Studio Classic Launcher in any of the following ways:

  • Choose Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic at the top left of the Studio Classic interface.

  • Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + L.

  • From the Studio Classic menu, choose File and then choose New Launcher.

  • If the SageMaker file browser is open, choose the plus (+) sign in the Studio Classic file browser menu.

  • In the Quick actions section of the Home tab, choose Open Launcher. The Launcher opens in a new tab. The Quick actions section is visible by default but can be toggled off. Choose Customize Layout to turn this section back on.

SageMaker Studio Classic launcher.

The Launcher consists of the following two sections:

Notebooks and compute resources

In this section, you can create a notebook, open an image terminal, or open a Python console.

To create or launch one of those items:

  1. Choose Change environment to select a SageMaker image, a kernel, an instance type, and, optionally, add a lifecycle configuration script that runs on image start-up. For more information on lifecycle configuration scripts, see Use lifecycle configurations to customize Studio Classic. For more information about kernel updates, see Change an Image or a Kernel.

  2. Select an item.

Note

When you choose an item from this section, you might incur additional usage charges. For more information, see Usage Metering.

The following items are available:

  • Notebook

    Launches the notebook in a kernel session on the chosen SageMaker image.

    Creates the notebook in the folder that you have currently selected in the file browser. To view the file browser, in the left sidebar of Studio Classic, choose the File Browser icon.

  • Console

    Launches the shell in a kernel session on the chosen SageMaker image.

    Opens the shell in the folder that you have currently selected in the file browser.

  • Image terminal

    Launches the terminal in a terminal session on the chosen SageMaker image.

    Opens the terminal in the root folder for the user (as shown by the Home folder in the file browser).

Note

By default, CPU instances launch on a ml.t3.medium instance, while GPU instances launch on a ml.g4dn.xlarge instance.

Utilities and files

In this section, you can add contextual help in a notebook; create Python, Markdown and text files; and open a system terminal.

Note

Items in this section run in the context of Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic and don't incur usage charges.

The following items are available:

  • Show Contextual Help

    Opens a new tab that displays contextual help for functions in a Studio Classic notebook. To display the help, choose a function in an active notebook. To make it easier to see the help in context, drag the help tab so that it's adjacent to the notebook tab. To open the help tab from within a notebook, press Ctrl + I.

    The following screenshot shows the contextual help for the Experiment.create method.

    SageMaker Studio Classic contextual help.

  • System terminal

    Opens a bash shell in the root folder for the user (as shown by the Home folder in the file browser).

  • Text File and Markdown File

    Creates a file of the associated type in the folder that you have currently selected in the file browser. To view the file browser, in the left sidebar, choose the File Browser icon ( ).