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# Research workspaces

Research workspaces are the foundation of a user’s interaction with SWB. These instances can be customized to a user’s needs, and include the following options:

* AWS SageMaker instances that work with widely used Jupyter Notebook formats
* RStudio server instances accessible over SSL
* EC2 Linux instances with SSH access
* EC2 Windows instances with RDP access