# Amazon — Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-15T16:01:47+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-instance-preference-lists-for-amazon-sagemaker-ai-training-jobs/
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- Subject: Bedrock / Nova

Amazon announced instance preference lists for SageMaker AI training and processing jobs, allowing users to specify an ordered list of up to five acceptable instance types. SageMaker AI automatically evaluates the list in priority order and launches the job on the first type with available capacity, reducing wait times and manual retry loops.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/announcing-instance-preference-lists-for-amazon-sagemaker-ai-training-jobs/:

> Today, we’re excited to announce Instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs and Amazon SageMaker Processing Jobs , helping you secure on-demand capacity faster by automatically checking across your preferred instance types.

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