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articles/machine-learning/concept-compute-instance.md

@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.author: sgilley
 author: sdgilley
 ms.reviewer: vijetaj
-ms.date: 01/17/2024
+ms.date: 10/01/2024
 monikerRange: 'azureml-api-2 || azureml-api-1'
 #Customer intent: As a data scientist, I want to know what a compute instance is and how to use it for Azure Machine Learning.
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 # What is an Azure Machine Learning compute instance?
 
-An Azure Machine Learning compute instance is a managed cloud-based workstation for data scientists.  Each compute instance has only one owner, although you can share files between multiple compute instances. 
+An Azure Machine Learning compute instance is a managed cloud-based workstation for data scientists. Each compute instance has only one owner, although you can share files between multiple compute instances. 
 
 Compute instances make it easy to get started with Azure Machine Learning development and provide management and enterprise readiness capabilities for IT administrators.
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ A compute instance is a fully managed cloud-based workstation optimized for your
 |----|----|
 |Productivity|You can build and deploy models using integrated notebooks and the following tools in Azure Machine Learning studio:<br/>-  Jupyter<br/>-  JupyterLab<br/>-  VS Code (preview)<br/>Compute instance is fully integrated with Azure Machine Learning workspace and studio. You can share notebooks and data with other data scientists in the workspace.<br/> 
 |Managed & secure|Reduce your security footprint and add compliance with enterprise security requirements. Compute instances  provide robust management policies and secure networking configurations such as:<br/><br/>- Autoprovisioning from Resource Manager templates or Azure Machine Learning SDK<br/>- [Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)](/azure/role-based-access-control/overview)<br/>- [Virtual network support](./how-to-secure-training-vnet.md)<br/> - Azure policy to disable SSH access<br/> - Azure policy to enforce creation in a virtual network <br/> - Auto-shutdown/auto-start based on schedule <br/>- TLS 1.2 enabled |
-|Preconfigured&nbsp;for&nbsp;ML|Save time on setup tasks with pre-configured and up-to-date ML packages, deep learning frameworks, GPU drivers.|
+|Preconfigured&nbsp;for&nbsp;ML|Save time on setup tasks with preconfigured and up-to-date ML packages, deep learning frameworks, GPU drivers.|
 |Fully customizable|Broad support for Azure VM types including GPUs and persisted low-level customization such as installing packages and drivers makes advanced scenarios a breeze. You can also use setup scripts to automate customization |
 
 * Secure your compute instance with **[No public IP](./how-to-secure-training-vnet.md)**.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Azure Machine Learning compute instance enables you to author, train, and deploy
 
 You can run notebooks from [your Azure Machine Learning workspace](./how-to-run-jupyter-notebooks.md), [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/), [JupyterLab](https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io), or [Visual Studio Code](./how-to-launch-vs-code-remote.md). VS Code Desktop can be configured to access your compute instance. Or use VS Code for the Web, directly from the browser, and without any required installations or dependencies.
 
-We recommend you try VS Code for the Web to take advantage of the easy integration and rich development environment it provides.  VS Code for the Web gives you many of the features of VS Code Desktop that you love, including search and syntax highlighting while browsing and editing.  For more information about using VS Code Desktop and VS Code for the Web, see [Launch Visual Studio Code integrated with Azure Machine Learning (preview)](how-to-launch-vs-code-remote.md) and [Work in VS Code remotely connected to a compute instance (preview)](how-to-work-in-vs-code-remote.md).
+We recommend you try VS Code for the Web to take advantage of the easy integration and rich development environment it provides. VS Code for the Web gives you many of the features of VS Code Desktop that you love, including search and syntax highlighting while browsing and editing. For more information about using VS Code Desktop and VS Code for the Web, see [Launch Visual Studio Code integrated with Azure Machine Learning (preview)](how-to-launch-vs-code-remote.md) and [Work in VS Code remotely connected to a compute instance (preview)](how-to-work-in-vs-code-remote.md).
 
 You can [install packages](how-to-access-terminal.md#install-packages) and [add kernels](how-to-access-terminal.md#add-new-kernels) to your compute instance.
 
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ You can [Add RStudio or Posit Workbench (formerly RStudio Workbench)](how-to-cre
 |Anaconda Python||
 |Jupyter and extensions||
 |Jupyterlab and extensions||
-[Azure Machine Learning SDK <br/> for Python](https://aka.ms/sdk-v2-install) from PyPI|Includes azure-ai-ml and many common azure extra packages.  To see the full list, <br/> [open a terminal window on your compute instance](how-to-access-terminal.md) and run <br/> `conda list -n azureml_py310_sdkv2 ^azure` |
+[Azure Machine Learning SDK <br/> for Python](https://aka.ms/sdk-v2-install) from PyPI|Includes azure-ai-ml and many common Azure extra packages. To see the full list, <br/> [open a terminal window on your compute instance](how-to-access-terminal.md) and run <br/> `conda list -n azureml_py310_sdkv2 ^azure` |
 |Other PyPI packages|`jupytext`</br>`tensorboard`</br>`nbconvert`</br>`notebook`</br>`Pillow`|
 |Conda packages|`cython`</br>`numpy`</br>`ipykernel`</br>`scikit-learn`</br>`matplotlib`</br>`tqdm`</br>`joblib`</br>`nodejs`|
 |Deep learning packages|`PyTorch`</br>`TensorFlow`</br>`Keras`</br>`Horovod`</br>`MLFlow`</br>`pandas-ml`</br>`scrapbook`|
@@ -92,26 +92,26 @@ The compute instance has Ubuntu as the base OS.
 
 ## Accessing files
 
-Notebooks and Python scripts are stored in the default storage account of your workspace in Azure file share.  These files are located under your "User files" directory. This storage makes it easy to share notebooks between compute instances. The storage account also keeps your notebooks safely preserved when you stop or delete a compute instance.
+Notebooks and Python scripts are stored in the default storage account of your workspace in Azure file share. These files are located under your "User files" directory. This storage makes it easy to share notebooks between compute instances. The storage account also keeps your notebooks safely preserved when you stop or delete a compute instance.
 
 The Azure file share account of your workspace is mounted as a drive on the compute instance. This drive is the default working directory for Jupyter, Jupyter Labs, RStudio, and Posit Workbench. This means that the notebooks and other files you create in Jupyter, JupyterLab, VS Code for Web, RStudio, or Posit are automatically stored on the file share and available to use in other compute instances as well.
 
-The files in the file share are accessible from all compute instances in the same workspace. Any changes to these files on the compute instance will be reliably persisted back to the file share.
+The files in the file share are accessible from all compute instances in the same workspace. Any changes to these files on the compute instance are reliably persisted back to the file share.
 
 You can also clone the latest Azure Machine Learning samples to your folder under the user files directory in the workspace file share.
 
-Writing small files can be slower on network drives than writing to the compute instance local disk itself.  If you're writing many small files, try using a directory directly on the compute instance, such as a `/tmp` directory. Note these files won't be accessible from other compute instances.
+Writing small files can be slower on network drives than writing to the compute instance local disk itself. If you're writing many small files, try using a directory directly on the compute instance, such as a `/tmp` directory. Note files on the compute instance aren't accessible from other compute instances.
 
-Don't store training data on the notebooks file share.  For information on the various options to store data, see [Access data in a job](how-to-read-write-data-v2.md).
+Don't store training data on the notebooks file share. For information on the various options to store data, see [Access data in a job](how-to-read-write-data-v2.md).
 
-You can use the `/tmp` directory on the compute instance for your temporary data.  However, don't write large files of data on the OS disk of the compute instance. OS disk on compute instance has 120-GB capacity. You can also store temporary training data on temporary disk mounted on /mnt. Temporary disk size is based on the VM size chosen and can store larger amounts of data if a higher size VM is chosen. Any software packages you install are saved on the OS disk of compute instance. Note customer managed key encryption is currently not supported for OS disk. The OS disk for compute instance is encrypted with Microsoft-managed keys. 
+You can use the `/tmp` directory on the compute instance for your temporary data. However, don't write large files of data on the OS disk of the compute instance. OS disk on compute instance has 120-GB capacity. You can also store temporary training data on temporary disk mounted on /mnt. Temporary disk size is based on the VM size chosen and can store larger amounts of data if a higher size VM is chosen. Any software packages you install are saved on the OS disk of compute instance. Note customer managed key encryption is currently not supported for OS disk. The OS disk for compute instance is encrypted with Microsoft-managed keys. 
 
 :::moniker range="azureml-api-1"
 You can also mount [datastores and datasets](v1/concept-azure-machine-learning-architecture.md?view=azureml-api-1&preserve-view=true#datasets-and-datastores). 
 :::moniker-end
 ## Create
 
-Follow the steps in [Create resources you need to get started](quickstart-create-resources.md) to create a basic compute instance.  
+Follow the steps in [Create resources you need to get started](quickstart-create-resources.md) to create a basic compute instance. 
 
 For more options, see [create a new compute instance](how-to-create-compute-instance.md?tabs=azure-studio#create).
 
@@ -125,20 +125,20 @@ Other ways to create a compute instance:
 * With [Azure Machine Learning SDK](how-to-create-compute-instance.md?tabs=python#create)
 * From the [CLI extension for Azure Machine Learning](how-to-create-compute-instance.md?tabs=azure-cli#create)
 
-The dedicated cores per region per VM family quota and total regional quota, which applies to compute instance creation, is unified and shared with Azure Machine Learning training compute cluster quota. Stopping the compute instance doesn't release quota to ensure you'll be able to restart the compute instance. Don't stop the compute instance through the OS terminal by doing a sudo shutdown.
+The dedicated cores per region per VM family quota and total regional quota, which applies to compute instance creation, is unified and shared with Azure Machine Learning training compute cluster quota. Stopping the compute instance doesn't release quota to ensure you are able to restart the compute instance. Don't stop the compute instance through the OS terminal by doing a sudo shutdown.
 
 Compute instance comes with P10 OS disk. Temp disk type depends on the VM size chosen. Currently, it isn't possible to change the OS disk type.
 
 
 ## Compute target
 
-Compute instances can be used as a [training compute target](concept-compute-target.md#training-compute-targets) similar to Azure Machine Learning [compute training clusters](how-to-create-attach-compute-cluster.md).  But a compute instance has only a single node, while a compute cluster can have more nodes.
+Compute instances can be used as a [training compute target](concept-compute-target.md#training-compute-targets) similar to Azure Machine Learning [compute training clusters](how-to-create-attach-compute-cluster.md). But a compute instance has only a single node, while a compute cluster can have more nodes.
 
 A compute instance:
 
 * Has a job queue.
 * Runs jobs securely in a virtual network environment, without requiring enterprises to open up SSH port. The job executes in a containerized environment and packages your model dependencies in a Docker container.
-* Can run multiple small jobs in parallel.  One job per vCPU can run in parallel while the rest of the jobs are queued.
+* Can run multiple small jobs in parallel. One job per vCPU can run in parallel while the rest of the jobs are queued.
 * Supports single-node multi-GPU [distributed training](how-to-train-distributed-gpu.md) jobs
 
 You can use compute instance as a local inferencing deployment target for test/debug scenarios.