# Understand Workspace status
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After you create an EMR Studio Workspace, it appears as a row in the **Workspaces** list in your Studio with its name, status, creation time, and last modified timestamp. The following table describes Workspace statuses.


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| Status | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
| Starting | The Workspace is being prepared, but is not yet ready to use. You can't open a Workspace when its status is Starting. | 
| Ready | You can open the Workspace to use the notebook editor, but you must attach the Workspace to an EMR cluster before you can run notebook code. | 
| Attaching | The Workspace is being attached to a cluster. | 
| Attached | The Workspace is attached to an EMR cluster and ready for you to write and run notebook code. If a Workspace's status is not Attached, you must attach it to a cluster before you can run notebook code. | 
| Idle | The Workspace has stopped. To reactivate an idle Workspace, select it from the Workspaces list. The status changes from Idle to Starting to Ready when you select the Workspace. | 
| Stopping | The Workspace is shutting down and will be set to Idle. When you stop a Workspace, it terminates any corresponding notebook kernels. EMR Studio stops notebooks that have been inactive for a long time.  | 
| Deleting | When you delete a Workspace, EMR Studio marks it for deletion and starts the deletion process. After the deletion process completes, the Workspace disappears from the list. When you delete a Workspace, its notebook files will remain in the Amazon S3 storage location. |