Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports SOCI indexing for faster container startup times

Amazon SageMaker Studio SOCI Indexing Support

AWS has introduced SOCI (Seekable Open Container Initiative) indexing support for Amazon SageMaker Studio, which reduces container startup times by 30-50% when using custom images. This feature is particularly beneficial for data scientists who need to tailor environments for specific use cases with additional libraries, dependencies, or configurations.

What to do

• Create a SOCI index for your custom container image using tools like Finch CLI, nerdctl, or Docker with SOCI CLI.
• Push the indexed image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
• Reference the image index URI when creating SageMaker Image resources.

SOCI indexing is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker Studio is available. For more details, refer to the Amazon SageMaker Developer Guide.

Source: AWS release notes

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