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.

Topics: Pricing, Developer tools, Performance

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Date	Release	Type
Sep 16	Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Update	Update
Sep 14	Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Update	Update
Sep 14	Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Update	Update
Sep 14	Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Update	Update
Sep 14	granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Update	Update
Sep 11	Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts Update	Update
Sep 11	Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections for Microsoft Power BI and other analytics tools Update	Update
Sep 8	Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports individual feature updates to lower write latency Update	Update

Also shipped on Sep 15, 2026

AWS in September 2026

Date	Company	Release	Product	Type
Sep 15	Snowflake	Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability) Snowflake SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 15	Snowflake	Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview) Snowflake Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Sep 15	Snowflake	Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability) Snowflake Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Sep 15	Snowflake	Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability) Snowflake SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 15	Databricks	Webhook-triggered deployments for Databricks Apps will soon be generally available Databricks Databricks AppsGA	Databricks Apps	GA
Sep 15	Databricks	Sharing foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing is now generally available Databricks Unity CatalogGA	Unity Catalog	GA