Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023
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The article announces the general availability of Amazon EKS optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), allowing EKS customers to benefit from improved security features, optimized boot times, and newer kernel versions for workloads using NVIDIA GPU, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium instances.
Specifically, the article covers:
- EKS Optimized NVIDIA AMI includes NVIDIA drivers, Fabric Manager, container toolkit, and support for AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)
- EKS Optimized Neuron AMI includes the Neuron driver and EFA support
- Availability across all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud, for EKS versions 1.23 and higher
- Use with EKS Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter
- Documentation references for using AL2023 accelerated AMIs and building custom AMIs
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