# Custom project profile
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Complete the following procedure to create a custom project profile for your Amazon SageMaker unified domain. With the Custom creation option, you can create a project profile from scratch with your own profile settings and a selection of blueprints.

1. Navigate to the Amazon SageMaker management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone](https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone) and use the region selector in the top navigation bar to choose the appropriate AWS Region.

1. Either create a new domain or choose an existing domain where you want to create a custom project profile.

1. On the domain's details page, choose the **Project profiles** tab and then choose **Create**.

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Project profile name and description** section, specify the name of the project profile and the description.

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Project profile creation options** section, choose **Custom create**.

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in **Blueprints**, specify the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio blueprints to use in your project. You can customize each blueprint configuration after this custom project profile is created. This is where you can choose built-in blueprints or your own [custom blueprints](custom-blueprint.md).

1. To configure the project account and Region information you want the profile to use, you can either provide account and Region information that projects will use each time, or you can configure your project profile to allow specifying accounts during project creation. Under **Account and region**, choose one of the following.
   + To create a project profile that will use the same account and region for each project created, select **Choose account and region**. Projects created with this profile will use the specified account and region and cannot specify otherwise at project creation.
   + To create a project profile that will choose from accounts available at project creation, select **Choose account and region during project creation**.
     + Under **Accounts available during project creation**, you can choose to create a project profile that will provide a list of all AWS accounts associated to the domain for selection at project creation. To choose this option, choose **All associated accounts**. For more information about associated accounts in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, see [Associated accounts in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio](associated-accounts.md).
     + Under **Accounts available during project creation**, you can choose to create a project profile that will provide account pools to be selected at project creation. An account pool is a list of authorized associated accounts and regions. To choose this option, select **Choose account pool(s)**. Next, under **Account pools**, choose the account pool or pools that you want to be available for the project profile to use at project creation. For information about creating and updating account pools, see [Account pools in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio](account-pools.md).

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Default tooling blueprint deployment settings** section, review the selections for the default deployment settings for the Tooling blueprint. 

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Project files storage** section, specify the storage configuration for project code artifacts. You can choose one of the following:
   + Amazon S3
   + Git repository

   For more information, see [Unified storage in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio](smus-admin-storage-guide.md). 

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Authorization - optional** section, specify who can use this project profile to create projects in all domain units. This can also be done per domain unit in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. You can specify **Selected users and groups** or **Allow all users and groups** options.
**Note**  
Projects do not provide strong security isolation. To limit cross-domain and cross-project resource discovery you can consider creating projects in separate accounts.

1. On the **Create project profile** page, in the **Project profile readiness** section, specify whether you want to enable this project profile on creation. Unless you check the **Enable project profile on creation** checkbox, your project profile is disabled and not available to use for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio projects after its creation. Leaving a project profile in a disabled state upon creation gives you the opportunity to customize your blueprints before making the project profile available.

1. Choose **Create project profile**.