Run Positron on Amazon SageMaker AI for data science workflows

What moved

Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. This post shows how a data scientist explores an Amazon Athena table, validates features in R, trains an XGBoost model in Python, deploys a real-time SageMaker AI endpoint, and reports results with Quarto, all in one governed SageMaker Studio Space. AWS issued this as an official post on 2026-09-21. The desk files the title and summary from the allow-listed official source, not a rewrite of claims the source.

Why it matters

Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. That is a public note from AWS, dated 2026-09-21. Tagged Enterprise.

On the record

• Filed from the AWS official RSS on 2026-09-21.
• Primary source host: aws.amazon.com.
• Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI.