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Cloud Changelog
Amazon SageMaker changelog
160 announcements since January 2025 · 10 GA · 10 Region expansions
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October 20268
GPU partitioning splits one GPU into up to seven partitions for real-time endpoints
Supports MLflow 3.16 with redesigned trace explorer and faster metric charts
Light mode theme option added for Identity Center (IDC) based domains
Custom training loops run against a live session on serverless model customization, billed per tokenGA
Adds Muse Glimmer, Qwen3.8 27B and Ministral 3 3B, 8B and 14B for SFT, DPO and RFT
Sequence length is configurable in job hyperparameters, up to 16K tokens for many models
September 20266
Adds Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB
ODBC connections for Power BI and other tools through the Athena ODBC driver
Update individual features in a record without rewriting the whole record, lowering write latency
Supports G6e instances with up to eight NVIDIA L40S GPUs in five Regions
Adds PythonOperator and BashOperator for custom functions and shell commands in serverless workflows
August 20265
July 202612
Teradata Vantage supported as a data source for querying alongside other data
File-level Git version control across Query Editor, Visual ETL, Workflows and Notebooks
G7e instances added for inference in Seoul, London and TokyoRegion
G6 instances added for inference in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, up to 4.6x inference performance versus G6; 3 US Regions
Adds Amazon OpenSearch as a data source for querying alongside other data
Create, share and reuse custom visual transforms in visual ETL flows
Adds BatchWriteRecord, ListRecords and custom table names for offline store
OpenLineage-compatible data lineage added to IAM-based domains, plus DeleteLineageEvent API
Open-source Terraform module provisions domains, blueprints, project profiles and projects
June 202613
Automatic container image caching gives up to 2x faster scale-out for generative AI models
Serverless customization of Gemma 4 E4B and 31B with SFT, DPO and RFT
Supports Apache Spark Connect from SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks, Jupyter and VS Code
Serverless supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning for the 30B-parameter model in four Regions
Adds EMR Serverless with Spark Connect as a Spark runtime alongside Athena Spark
Uses SageMaker Catalog business context and metadata to find datasets and generate SQL and Python
Conversation history lists past conversations with auto-generated titles and timestamps
User interface supports twelve languages, detected from browser settings or chosen in profileGA
Serverless fine-tuning of models on multi-step agentic tasks, billed per token processedGA
Custom IAM permissions boundaries apply to roles created with each project
May 202621
P4de instances with 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs added in Asia Pacific (Tokyo)Region
P5en.48xl instances with 8 H200 GPUs added to notebook instancesGA
P5.4xl instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs added to notebook instancesGA
Domain management outside the AWS console now covers Identity Center and IAM-based domains
Business metadata, glossaries, and governance now available in IAM-based domains
Data quality rule authoring and evaluation using DQDL, powered by AWS Glue Data Quality
Serverless SFT and RFT fine-tuning for the Qwen3.6 27B model
Available in Unified Studio domains configured with IAM Identity CenterGA
Supports SageMaker Python SDK v3, with Lake Formation access controls and Iceberg table properties
Available in US East (N. Virginia) on Studio notebooksRegion
Available in Tokyo, Singapore and Frankfurt on Studio notebooksRegion
Available in Middle East (Dubai) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) on Studio notebooksRegion
Available in Dubai, Tokyo, Seoul, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Spain on Studio notebooksRegion
Adds getting started tutorials, automatic light or dark mode and in-product release notes
April 202610
CloudWatch metrics now monitor capacity reservation utilization per plan and across all plans
Serverless notebooks and data agent now supported for IAM Identity Center domains
Notebook kernels run within the VPC configured at domain level
Serverless fine-tuning of Qwen3.5 4B, 9B and 27B using SFT and RFT
Multi-region replication from IAM Identity Center for deploying domains in different Regions
On-demand deep health checks for EKS and Slurm clusters; Slurm also checks at provisioning
Gang scheduling ensures all pods for a distributed training job are ready before it starts
Serverless Workflows now supported in Identity Center domains, previously only IAM-based domainsGA
March 202610
Shows CloudWatch metrics for AWS Glue jobs alongside job logsGA
Kiro and Cursor IDEs can connect remotely through the AWS Toolkit extension
Remote connection from Cursor IDE through the AWS Toolkit extension
Serverless fine-tuning and reinforcement fine-tuning extended to 12 more open-weight models
Existing plans can be extended by 1-day or 7-day increments, up to 182 days
Data preview v2.0 shows transform output in about one second using in-browser query engine
Light mode added for IAM-based domains alongside existing dark mode
Metadata sync with Atlan, Collibra and Alation catalogs for assets, glossary terms and projects
Glue 5.1 runs Visual ETL, notebook and code jobs on Spark 3.5.6 and Python 3.11
Kiro IDE can connect remotely using the AWS Toolkit extension
February 20264
Slurm topology and filesystem mounts configurable in cluster create and update APIs
Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct models are now available on SageMaker JumpStart
Build Production-Ready Drug Discovery and Robotics Pipelines with NVIDIA NIMs on SageMaker JumpStart