diff --git a/litellm/llms/sagemaker.py b/litellm/llms/sagemaker.py
index 8ddc35b6693..b1eed4e9976 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/sagemaker.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/sagemaker.py
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ def completion(
             prompt += f"{message['content']}"
     data = {
         "inputs": prompt,
-        # "instruction": prompt, # some baseten models require the prompt to be passed in via the 'instruction' kwarg
-        **optional_params,
+        "parameters": optional_params
     }
 
     ## LOGGING
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
index 1cd6e570a26..e582eee59c7 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
@@ -392,16 +392,19 @@ def test_completion_together_ai():
         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
 
 
-# def test_completion_sagemaker():
-#     try:
-#         response = completion(
-#             model="sagemaker/jumpstart-dft-meta-textgeneration-llama-2-7b", 
-#             messages=messages
-#         )
-#         # Add any assertions here to check the response
-#         print(response)
-#     except Exception as e:
-#         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+def test_completion_sagemaker():
+    try:
+        response = completion(
+            model="sagemaker/jumpstart-dft-meta-textgeneration-llama-2-7b", 
+            messages=messages,
+            temperature=0.2,
+            max_tokens=80,
+        )
+        # Add any assertions here to check the response
+        print(response)
+    except Exception as e:
+        pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+
 
 # def test_vertex_ai():
 #     model_name = "chat-bison"
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 4b3a70418fc..2ca755b94b0 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -781,6 +781,21 @@ def get_optional_params(  # use the openai defaults
         if presence_penalty != 0:
             optional_params["repetition_penalty"] = presence_penalty
         optional_params["details"] = True
+    elif custom_llm_provider == "sagemaker":
+        if "llama-2" in model:
+            # llama-2 models on sagemaker support the following args
+            """
+            max_new_tokens: Model generates text until the output length (excluding the input context length) reaches max_new_tokens. If specified, it must be a positive integer.
+            temperature: Controls the randomness in the output. Higher temperature results in output sequence with low-probability words and lower temperature results in output sequence with high-probability words. If temperature -> 0, it results in greedy decoding. If specified, it must be a positive float.
+            top_p: In each step of text generation, sample from the smallest possible set of words with cumulative probability top_p. If specified, it must be a float between 0 and 1.
+            return_full_text: If True, input text will be part of the output generated text. If specified, it must be boolean. The default value for it is False.
+            """
+            if max_tokens != float("inf"):
+                optional_params["max_new_tokens"] = max_tokens
+            if temperature != 1:
+                optional_params["temperature"] = temperature
+            if top_p != 1:
+                optional_params["top_p"] = top_p
     elif model in litellm.aleph_alpha_models:
         if max_tokens != float("inf"):
             optional_params["maximum_tokens"] = max_tokens