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Running notebook workloads in prebuilt Satellite locations

Running notebook workloads in prebuilt Satellite locations

With Satellite and notebooks running in Watson Studio, you can build machine learning models in the cloud and train these models in the same cloud region where your data is stored. Cloud Pak for Data as a Service with IBM Cloud Satellite supports machine learning workloads by managing runtimes as-a-service on Amazon Web Services. Specifically, it supports the Watson Studio runtime environments for Python and R notebooks and also notebook jobs running on prebuilt Satellite locations that are configured and managed by IBM.

By running workloads where your data is located, little data egress charges are incurred as no data is in transit. To view egress charges for AWS data, see Amazon S3 pricing. IBM does not move data out of Satellite locations for training models from a notebook. Although the IBM control plane might reside elsewhere, the data plane (where data is processed) is located in the IBM-owned AWS account and data never leaves that location.

For notebooks, environments for Satellite locations are available to users of paid Watson Studio Cloud plans in the Dallas region. See Watson Studio offering plans to determine if your plan supports Satellite locations.

To access the data from a notebook, you have the option to configure an S3 access point on AWS and include the access point information in your notebook. See Accessing data in AWS through access points for access point examples.

Watch this video for an overview of using Satellite locations to access data stored in Amazon Web Services through a Jupyter notebook.

This video provides a visual method as an alternative to following the written steps in this documentation.

The following diagram illustrates where the workloads for a Jupyter notebook reside in a prebuilt Satellite location. The notebook code resides within Watson Studio on IBM Cloud, but the compute resources for the Watson Studio environment and the database reside in an AWS region. The most benefits are gained when when your AWS data resides in the same region as the prebuilt Satellite location.

The Watson Studio runtimes reside in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on AWS that is owned by IBM. A VPC created by a customer will remain as a separate, customer-owned VPC.

Watson Studio runtimes for a prebuilt location

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