AWS outlines shared SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster architecture for multiple teams
AWS has published a reference architecture for multiple teams sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster. It combines identity and access controls, team namespaces, task governance, and cost allocation, while cautioning that Kubernetes namespaces are not hard security boundaries.

Full Report
Dated October 8, 2026, AWS’s reference architecture describes how multiple teams can share a single Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster. Its example has two teams, each with a Kubernetes namespace, and offers access through CLI workflows or SageMaker Studio. In the CLI path, users run `aws sso login` to obtain temporary credentials and use `kubectl` to submit tasks.
The identity example pairs Microsoft Entra ID with AWS IAM Identity Center, with SCIM synchronization for provisioning and de-provisioning users and groups. EKS access entries map IAM roles to Kubernetes permissions scoped to each team’s namespace. HyperPod Task Governance is used for fairness, while namespace-level cost allocation supports chargeback.
For storage, the article describes Amazon FSx for Lustre or Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, with shared team directories and individual home directories; object storage can use team-specific or shared Amazon S3 buckets. AWS stresses that namespaces provide an isolation boundary, not a hard security boundary, and positions the design for teams within one organization—not mutually untrusted customers. The architecture adds implementation detail to AWS’s related HyperPod governance guidance by showing how identity, workload fairness, and costs can be handled in a shared-cluster setup.
Why This Matters
Organizations evaluating shared GPU capacity get a concrete pattern for tying team access, workload fairness, and cost allocation to one cluster. AWS’s qualification about namespace isolation is also important when deciding whether the architecture fits the trust boundaries of a deployment.
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Primary Evidence
1Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Giuseppe Angelo Porcelli
“A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernetes namespaces for isolation, HyperPod Task Governance for fairness, and namespace-level cost allocation for chargeback.”
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