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# Announcing instance preference lists for Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs

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**Published:** 2026-09-15T16:01:47.000Z
**Category:** Infra

## Summary

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs\. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and capacity\-watching scripts\.

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