Posted On: Mar 28, 2024
Today Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) announced two new Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). We now provide two new variants of the Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) GPU and Neuron AMIs that have an updated Linux kernel (5.10). The ECS-optimized GPU AMI contains pre-configured Nvidia kernel drivers, the Docker GPU runtime, and the default version of CUDA. The ECS Optimized Neuron AMI comes pre-baked with all the necessary AWS Neuron packages for running on Trainium and Inferentia EC2 instances. Kernel 5.10 brings performance improvements and security features for processor architectures powering the latest generations of Amazon EC2 instances.
We recommend you use the ECS-Optimized AL2 Kernel Version 5.10 GPU and Neuron AMIs when launching new GPU, Trainium and Inferentia instances to benefit from new features and performance improvements. Kernel version 5.10 will continue to be supported until the end of life date for Amazon Linux 2 (06/2025).
April 16, 2024: This post has been updated to reflect the renaming of the ECS-Optimized Inferentia AMI to the ECS-Optimized Neuron AMI