diff --git a/terraform/2_sagemaker/main.tf b/terraform/2_sagemaker/main.tf
index c7bd935e..5bb25330 100644
--- a/terraform/2_sagemaker/main.tf
+++ b/terraform/2_sagemaker/main.tf
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ resource "aws_sagemaker_model" "embedding_model" {
   execution_role_arn = aws_iam_role.sagemaker_role.arn
 
   primary_container {
-    image = var.sagemaker_image_uri
+    image = "763104351884.dkr.ecr.${var.aws_region}.amazonaws.com/huggingface-pytorch-inference:1.13.1-transformers4.26.0-cpu-py39-ubuntu20.04"
     environment = {
       HF_MODEL_ID = var.embedding_model_name
       HF_TASK     = "feature-extraction"
diff --git a/terraform/2_sagemaker/variables.tf b/terraform/2_sagemaker/variables.tf
index 313102e9..17abb24a 100644
--- a/terraform/2_sagemaker/variables.tf
+++ b/terraform/2_sagemaker/variables.tf
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ variable "aws_region" {
 variable "sagemaker_image_uri" {
   description = "URI of the SageMaker container image"
   type        = string
-  default     = "763104351884.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/huggingface-pytorch-inference:1.13.1-transformers4.26.0-cpu-py39-ubuntu20.04"
 }
 
 variable "embedding_model_name" {