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Amazon EKS optimized Amazon Linux 2023 accelerated AMIs now available

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This article announces the general availability of accelerated variants of the Amazon EKS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) AMIs that support Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Neuron devices or NVIDIA GPUs. These new AMIs are optimized for running machine learning and high-performance computing workloads on the latest accelerators.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Key changes in the accelerated AL2023 AMIs compared to previous versions
  • Separate AMI variants for AWS Neuron and NVIDIA GPUs
  • CUDA components and user space libraries handling
  • Open-sourced AMI build configurations
  • NVIDIA GPU driver versions supported
  • Using the accelerated AMIs with Amazon EKS managed node groups, Karpenter, and self-managed nodes
  • Conclusion highlighting the benefits and resources for learning more


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