Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances
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The article announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs for machine learning and spatial computing workloads.
Specifically, the article covers:
- G6e instances offer up to 2.5x better performance compared to G5 instances and up to 20% lower inference costs than P4d instances.
- G6e instances can be used for deploying large language models, generating images/video/audio with diffusion models, and creating immersive 3D simulations and digital twins.
- Key specifications of G6e instances: up to 8 NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs, 384 GB total GPU memory, 192 vCPUs, 400 Gbps network bandwidth, 1.536 TB system memory, and 7.6 TB local NVMe SSD storage.
- G6e instances are available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions, and can be purchased as On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, or as part of Savings Plans.
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