Click on the Navigation Menu.

Click Vertex AI > Dashboard.

Click Enable All Recommended APIs. This action will only take a few seconds.

Click Workbench from the left pane.

Click User-Managed Notebooks on the View ribbon.

Click on the + Create New icon on the top of the page.

For Environment select Python 3 (with Intel® MKL).

Click on the Advanced Options link at the bottom of the side window.

Set the Region to us-east1 and select any Zone from the us-east1 Region.

Click Machine Type from the left pane. If it is not set to e2-standard-4, then select E2-standard and e2-standard-4 from the list of options.

At the bottom of the page, click Create. Notebook creation should take 4 to 7 minutes to complete.

After a few minutes, the Vertex AI console will have your instance name followed by Open Jupyterlab. Click Open Jupyterlab.

A new tab will open in your browser with the JupyterLab environment. Select Python 3 under Notebook.