diff --git a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_and_hardware_type.py b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_and_hardware_type.py
index 0046e47a80..f72b678178 100644
--- a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_and_hardware_type.py
+++ b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_and_hardware_type.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import logging
 
+from sagemaker.core.helper.pipeline_variable import PipelineVariable
 from sagemaker.serve.utils.types import ModelServer, HardwareType
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -35,6 +36,10 @@
 
 def validate_image_uri_and_hardware(image_uri: str, instance_type: str, model_server: ModelServer):
     """Placeholder docstring"""
+    if isinstance(image_uri, PipelineVariable):
+        # Skip validation since the value is not known at build time
+        return
+
     if "xgboost" in image_uri:
         # xgboost container does not care about hardware type
         # hence skipping validation
diff --git a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_uri.py b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_uri.py
index 2f50faaeed..f3ffa7550d 100644
--- a/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_uri.py
+++ b/sagemaker-serve/src/sagemaker/serve/validations/check_image_uri.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 """Validates that a given image_uri is not a 1p image."""
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
+from typing import Union
+
+from sagemaker.core.helper.pipeline_variable import PipelineVariable
 
 # Generated by running the parse_registry_accounts.py script
 all_accounts = {
@@ -296,7 +299,9 @@
 }
 
 
-def is_1p_image_uri(image_uri: str) -> bool:
+def is_1p_image_uri(image_uri: Union[str, PipelineVariable]) -> bool:
     """Shows if the given image_uri is owned by a 1st party account"""
+    if isinstance(image_uri, PipelineVariable):
+        return False
     image_uri_account = image_uri[0:12]
     return image_uri_account in all_accounts
diff --git a/sagemaker-serve/tests/unit/validations/test_check_image_uri.py b/sagemaker-serve/tests/unit/validations/test_check_image_uri.py
index c978d74a5f..bd1b1aa9ee 100644
--- a/sagemaker-serve/tests/unit/validations/test_check_image_uri.py
+++ b/sagemaker-serve/tests/unit/validations/test_check_image_uri.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 import unittest
+from unittest.mock import Mock
+
+from sagemaker.core.helper.pipeline_variable import PipelineVariable
+from sagemaker.core.workflow.parameters import ParameterString
 from sagemaker.serve.validations.check_image_uri import is_1p_image_uri, all_accounts
 
 
@@ -27,6 +31,21 @@ def test_all_accounts_contains_known_accounts(self):
         self.assertIn("763104351884", all_accounts)
         self.assertIn("246618743249", all_accounts)
 
+    def test_is_1p_image_uri_with_parameter_string_returns_false(self):
+        # ParameterString should not raise TypeError and should return False
+        param = ParameterString(
+            "image_uri",
+            default_value="763104351884.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pytorch:latest",
+        )
+        result = is_1p_image_uri(param)
+        self.assertFalse(result)
+
+    def test_is_1p_image_uri_with_pipeline_variable_returns_false(self):
+        # A mock PipelineVariable instance should return False without raising
+        mock_pipeline_var = Mock(spec=PipelineVariable)
+        result = is_1p_image_uri(mock_pipeline_var)
+        self.assertFalse(result)
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()