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Companies in need of a tool to deploy large-scale machine learning inference applications with high performance
About Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances
Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances are purpose-built to deliver high-performance and cost-effective machine learning inference. They provide up to 2.3 times higher throughput and up to 70% lower cost per inference compared to other Amazon EC2 instances. Powered by up to 16 AWS Inferentia chips, ML inference accelerators designed by AWS, Inf1 instances also feature 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and offer up to 100 Gbps networking bandwidth to support large-scale ML applications. These instances are ideal for deploying applications such as search engines, recommendation systems, computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, personalization, and fraud detection. Developers can deploy their ML models on Inf1 instances using the AWS Neuron SDK, which integrates with popular ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet, allowing for seamless migration with minimal code changes.
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AWS Neuron
It supports high-performance training on AWS Trainium-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances. For model deployment, it supports high-performance and low-latency inference on AWS Inferentia-based Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances and AWS Inferentia2-based Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances. With Neuron, you can use popular frameworks, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, and optimally train and deploy machine learning (ML) models on Amazon EC2 Trn1, Inf1, and Inf2 instances with minimal code changes and without tie-in to vendor-specific solutions. AWS Neuron SDK, which supports Inferentia and Trainium accelerators, is natively integrated with PyTorch and TensorFlow. This integration ensures that you can continue using your existing workflows in these popular frameworks and get started with only a few lines of code changes. For distributed model training, the Neuron SDK supports libraries, such as Megatron-LM and PyTorch Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP).
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Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, are purpose-built for high-performance deep learning training of generative AI models, including large language models and latent diffusion models. Trn1 instances offer up to 50% cost-to-train savings over other comparable Amazon EC2 instances. You can use Trn1 instances to train 100B+ parameter DL and generative AI models across a broad set of applications, such as text summarization, code generation, question answering, image and video generation, recommendation, and fraud detection. The AWS Neuron SDK helps developers train models on AWS Trainium (and deploy models on the AWS Inferentia chips). It integrates natively with frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow so that you can continue using your existing code and workflows to train models on Trn1 instances.
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AWS Inferentia
AWS Inferentia accelerators are designed by AWS to deliver high performance at the lowest cost for your deep learning (DL) inference applications. The first-generation AWS Inferentia accelerator powers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf1 instances, which deliver up to 2.3x higher throughput and up to 70% lower cost per inference than comparable GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances. Many customers, including Airbnb, Snap, Sprinklr, Money Forward, and Amazon Alexa, have adopted Inf1 instances and realized its performance and cost benefits. The first-generation Inferentia has 8 GB of DDR4 memory per accelerator and also features a large amount of on-chip memory. Inferentia2 offers 32 GB of HBM2e per accelerator, increasing the total memory by 4x and memory bandwidth by 10x over Inferentia.
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Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances work with?
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances support in their product?
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances offer?
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances offers support via phone support, 24/7 live support, and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances integrate with?
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances integrates with: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EC2 G5 Instances, Amazon EC2 P4 Instances, Amazon EC2 P5 Instances, Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances, Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances, Amazon EC2 UltraClusters, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon EKS, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Deep Learning AMIs, AWS Inferentia, AWS Neuron, AWS Nitro System, AWS Trainium, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, MXNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
Q: What type of training does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances provide?
Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances provides training in the form of documentation, webinars, in person, and videos.
Q: How much does Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances cost?
Pricing for Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances starts at $0.228 per hour.
