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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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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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Amazon Elastic Inference
Amazon Elastic Inference allows you to attach low-cost GPU-powered acceleration to Amazon EC2 and Sagemaker instances or Amazon ECS tasks, to reduce the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75%. Amazon Elastic Inference supports TensorFlow, Apache MXNet, PyTorch and ONNX models. Inference is the process of making predictions using a trained model. In deep learning applications, inference accounts for up to 90% of total operational costs for two reasons. Firstly, standalone GPU instances are typically designed for model training - not for inference. While training jobs batch process hundreds of data samples in parallel, inference jobs usually process a single input in real time, and thus consume a small amount of GPU compute. This makes standalone GPU inference cost-inefficient. On the other hand, standalone CPU instances are not specialized for matrix operations, and thus are often too slow for deep learning inference.
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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 Trn2 Instances
Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances, powered by AWS Trainium2 chips, are purpose-built for high-performance deep learning training of generative AI models, including large language models and diffusion models. They offer up to 50% cost-to-train savings over comparable Amazon EC2 instances. Trn2 instances support up to 16 Trainium2 accelerators, providing up to 3 petaflops of FP16/BF16 compute power and 512 GB of high-bandwidth memory. To facilitate efficient data and model parallelism, Trn2 instances feature NeuronLink, a high-speed, nonblocking interconnect, and support up to 1600 Gbps of second-generation Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv2) network bandwidth. They are deployed in EC2 UltraClusters, enabling scaling up to 30,000 Trainium2 chips interconnected with a nonblocking petabit-scale network, delivering 6 exaflops of compute performance. The AWS Neuron SDK integrates natively with popular machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
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