Technical Help

Rent a windows machine

Oct 14, 2025

Hello @adanto , Our instances only have Ubuntu 22/24 as the base OS, we do not offer any Windows machine in our services. If you have other questions or concerns, please let us know thru our Support Portal.

Unable ssh via laptop but can ssh via other server and connect to the Jupyter via browser

Oct 13, 2025

Hello Jason, We are sorry to hear that you are having issues connecting to your instance. Could you open a ticket with us so we can troubleshoot directly with you?

Session Persistence in Lambda Chat

Sep 15, 2025

Hello @Anchained , Just to inform you: Lambda Chat has been sunsetted. Service will continue through September 25th. On the 25th:

• Lambda Chat will go offline.
• Lambda Chat Pro subscriptions will be cancelled. Users will receive a refund for the current billing period.

Booting takes long time and then "alert" status for gpu_1x_h100_pcie

Sep 15, 2025

Hello @demajh , you can click on ‘Get Support’ from the instance that is having issue - it should automatically create a ticket for you. See below photo for reference. Also, if an instance takes longer than 20 minutes to boot, please terminate it and start a new one. You will not be billed for the...

Ok ....I'll give a good THAT FIGURES!

Sep 1, 2025

Hello Synacknet! We are also sad to see Lambda Chat go. 😞 Maybe some day we will offer this service again! But just to give clarity about the status of Lambda Chat:

• Lambda Chat has been sunsetted. Service will continue through September 25th.

Feature Request: Spending Limits

Sep 1, 2025

Hello! We are most certainly aware that spending limits is a fairly common request from our users. Our engineering team are looking into the overall feasibility of implementing this feature. For now, kindly keep checking your expenditures in the Usage page in your Cloud Dashboards to keep track of...

Is there a list of instance types by region somewhere?

Aug 20, 2025

In addition, we do not have a region that has both A100 and H100. You may have to transfer files between the two machines’ persistent storage.

Is there a list of instance types by region somewhere?

Aug 20, 2025

Hello @utanapishtirox , You may have to use our API to list available instances per region. Further filtering may be needed on which instance type you need and where.

Virtual environments Lambda Stack

Jun 6, 2023

Hello @sahrens, here is a sample case of installing a virtual environment to Jupyter Lab. The test-jupyter environment must be activated before adding it to your notebook; it should appear as an option when changing kernels.

ubuntu@192-18-134-118:~$ python -m ve...

How do you boot straight to Linux (Ubuntu)

May 31, 2023

Hello @sc4586, please open a case with us thru https://support.lambdalabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new and include the Lambda serial number or order number in the case. We will work with you thru that case. Thank you!

How to run H100 with docker in sm_86 compatibility mode?

May 29, 2023

Hello @artemis, thanks for confirming that CUDA 11.8 worked. Here are the steps to setup a Conda environment with Pytorch 2.0+CUDA 11.8:

• Install miniconda. You can run it without super user privileges and keep it local. See link here on how to download and configure: Miniconda — conda documentation

How to run H100 with docker in sm_86 compatibility mode?

May 28, 2023

Hello @jwatte, For H100 instances, you are going to have to install CUDA version 11.8 or higher. I would suggest using the newest container found here: You can also setup a Conda environment with Pytorch 2.0+CUDA 11.8. I can send the instructions if you are interested.