Download an entire folder from AWS sagemaker to laptop

You can do that by opening a terminal on sagemaker. Navigate to the path where your folder is. Run the command to zip it

zip -r -X archive_name.zip folder_to_compress

You will find the zipped folder. You can then select it and download it.

you can run into an issue that "zip command cannot be found" in such case first run:

sudo yum install zip unzip