SageMakerClient CustomSession uses default values instead of passed user session

[Alex-Mesmer]

PySDK Version

• PySDK V2 (2.x)
• PySDK V3 (3.x)

Describe the bug
SageMakerClient builds the sagemaker client from botocore.session.get_session(), ignoring the provided user session resulting in cross-account CreateTrainingJob failures.

In sagemaker-core 2.16.0, SageMakerClient.init (sagemaker/core/utils/utils.py, ~L395–406) creates self.sagemaker_client from a fresh default botocore session (botocore.session.get_session() → custom_session) rather than the session argument, under a # TODO: Remove post-launch custom service-model loader. The sagemaker-runtime/featurestore/metrics clients correctly use session. Because the class is a SingletonMeta singleton, the first (default-credential) client is reused process-wide ignoring passed in user sessions.

Impact: callers that pass an explicit boto3 session (e.g. ModelTrainer(sagemaker_session=…) → TrainingJob.create(session=…)) have the control-plane call issued under the ambient default AWS profile instead. When the execution role is in a different account than the default profile, CreateTrainingJob fails with ValidationException: RoleArn: Cross-account pass role is not allowed.

To reproduce
If a user has multiple AWS profiles (all for different accounts) set up in ~/.aws/config and the default in ~/.aws/credentials is NOT the same account as the intended profile that is used to create the SageMaker Session then CreateTrainingJob will fail with ValidationException: RoleArn: Cross-account pass role is not allowed.

from sagemaker.core.helper.session_helper import Session
from sagemaker.train import ModelTrainer
from sagemaker.train.configs import SourceCode, Compute, InputData
import boto3

sess = Session(boto_session=boto3.Session(profile_name="acct-A", region_name="us-east-2"))
ModelTrainer(
    sagemaker_session=sess,                                   # account A
    role="arn:aws:iam::<ACCOUNT_A>:role/<your-exec-role>",    # account A
    training_image="<ACCOUNT_A>.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/img:latest",
    compute=Compute(instance_type="ml.m5.xlarge", instance_count=1),
    source_code=SourceCode(source_dir="src", entry_script="train.py"),
).train(input_data_config=[InputData(channel_name="train", data_source="s3://bucket/train/")])
# -> ValidationException: RoleArn: Cross-account pass role is not allowed
#    (only when your *default* AWS profile is a different account than A)

Expected behavior
A training job to be created and executed in the specified account. This is a migration from v2 to v3 and the v2 implementation of this works without issue creating training jobs in the targeted accounts based on the profile passed to the Session.

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System information
A description of your system. Please provide:

• SageMaker Python SDK version: 3.15.1
• Framework name (eg. PyTorch) or algorithm (eg. KMeans): SKLearn
• Framework version: 1.4-2
• Python version: py3
• CPU or GPU: CPU
• Custom Docker image (Y/N): N

Additional context
This issue also seems to persist to the latest version of 3.16 since the same custom_session is also used to initiate the sagemaker_client.