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title: "Serving Image Selection - Air Market"
description: "Deploying a model to SageMaker means naming a container image, and the wrong one - or a stale one, or one from another region - breaks the deploy. This picks the container that suits your model and f…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection"
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[Air Market](/) / [Data & Analytics](/category/data) / Serving Image Selection

Skill by [Hugging Face](/@huggingface)

# Serving Image Selection

Get the serving container right instead of pasting a URI from memory

## What this does

Deploying a model to SageMaker means naming a container image, and the wrong one - or a stale one, or one from another region - breaks the deploy. This picks the container that suits your model and finds its current URI. Reach for it whenever you are about to put an image URI into deployment code.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Choose the serving container for the model you are deploying
- Look up the current image URI for your region
- Avoid hardcoding a container URI you half-remember

## Information

**Serving Image Selection at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Hugging Face](/@huggingface) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 33 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [huggingface/skills](https://github.com/huggingface/skills/tree/7039bdcf4510c30ec932637e8b2c1646aee7f185/skills/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection) |
| GitHub stars | 10,955 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 608, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Serving Image Selection and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Serving Image Selection's check was run against**

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| Commit | 7039bdcf4510c30ec932637e8b2c1646aee7f185 |
| Content hash | f775663c5b9ce2f50ea886d290c38c13b363d36d084815da2beae370bc0bf991 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/huggingface/skills/blob/7039bdcf4510c30ec932637e8b2c1646aee7f185/skills/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Serving Image Selection](/security/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection)

## About Serving Image Selection

When a model is about to go to a SageMaker endpoint, something has to choose the serving container and its image URI. This skill does that, and finds the current URI rather than reusing one from memory.

It has clear preferences. HuggingFace-curated Deep Learning Containers always come first: HuggingFace vLLM for LLMs and generative rerankers, vLLM-Omni for multimodal, TEI for embeddings and cross-encoder rerankers, and the HF Inference Toolkit for other transformers. Generic images such as AWS vLLM, DJL-LMI and SGLang are reached for only when no HuggingFace image is compatible - never merely because one carries a newer version.

It applies to the whole range of deploy requests, from hosting an LLM to serving a fine-tuned model, an embedding model, a reranker or a sentence-transformers model, and it holds two hard lines: never hardcode a container URI from memory, and never default to TGI.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/model-to-image.md - reference
- scripts/mirror_image.py - script

## Questions

### Is Serving Image Selection safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Serving Image Selection and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 7039bdcf4510, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection.

### How do I install Serving Image Selection?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/huggingface/skills/tree/7039bdcf4510c30ec932637e8b2c1646aee7f185/skills/hf-cloud-serving-image-selection. Install from that link, not the branch.

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