Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter now support Dynamic Resource Allocation
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This article announces Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) support for NVIDIA GPUs and Elastic Fabric Adapter devices in Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter.
- Define GPU and EFA device attributes using ResourceClaim objects by model, architecture, or other specifications
- Share GPU devices across Pods and allocate topology-aligned devices for optimal performance
- Karpenter automatically launches lowest-cost instances matching workload requirements
- NVIDIA DRA driver and EFA DRA driver (DRANET) are built-in with Amazon EKS Auto Mode
- Prevents device oversubscription by isolating DRA and device plugin workloads on separate nodes
- Available in all AWS Regions except GovCloud and China; requires Kubernetes 1.36+ for EKS Auto Mode
DRA enables efficient GPU and network device allocation for distributed training and inference workloads with automatic scaling.
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