How to create "Start-up script" in AWS Sagemaker Studio

Question

In AWS Sagemaker Studio, under File > New > Notebook There's a drop-down menu to select a kernel and start-up script:

How do you create and then use that startup script in the dropdown menu?

Answer 1

You can create a Studio startup script (i.e., lifecycle configuration) by following the AWS tutorial located here. Make sure your AWS CLI is updated to at least version 2.2.38 which added this support.

Lifecycle configurations have existed in SageMaker Notebooks for a while but were just recently added to SageMaker Studio (September 2021).