Relevant News - Amazon EMR

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-sagemaker-unified-studio-kiro-ide/

Today, AWS announces the ability to remotely connect from Kiro IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. This new capability allows data scientists, ML engineers, and developers to leverage their Kiro setup - including its spec-driven development, conversational coding, and automated feature generation capabilities - while accessing the scalable compute resources of Amazon SageMaker. By connecting Kiro to SageMaker Unified Studio using the AWS toolkit extension, you can eliminate context switching between your local IDE and cloud infrastructure, maintaining your existing agentic development workflows within a single environment for all your AWS analytics and AI/ML services.

SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, offers a broad set of fully managed cloud interactive development environments (IDE), including JupyterLab and Code Editor based on Code-OSS (Open-Source Software). Starting today, you can also use your customized local Kiro setup - complete with specs, steering files, and hooks - while accessing your compute resources and data on Amazon SageMaker. Since Kiro is built on Code-OSS, authentication is secure via IAM through the AWS Toolkit extension, giving you access to all your SageMaker Unified Studio domains and projects. This integration provides a convenient path from your local AI-powered development environment to scalable infrastructure for running workloads across data processing, SQL analytics services like Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Athena, and ML workflows - all with enterprise-grade security including customer-managed encryption keys and AWS IAM integration.

This feature is available in all Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To learn more, refer to the SageMaker user guide.

Published: 2026-03-03 19:39:00+00:00