New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners

The second, a Base AMI, available in Amazon Linux and Ubuntu versions, provides a high-performance foundational platform for power users to run their own customized deep learning models. The Conda-based AMI comes packaged with latest official releases of the following deep learning frameworks: Apache MXNet 0.12 with Gluon, TensorFlow 1.4, Caffe2 0.8.1, PyTorch 0.2, CNTK 2.2, Theano 0.9, Keras 1.2.2 and Keras 2.0.9. The Base AMI provides the foundation of following GPU drivers and libraries: CUDA 8 and 9, CuBLAS 8 and 9, CuDNN 6 and 7, glibc 2.18, OpenCV 3.2.0, Both of the new AMIs available from the AWS Marketplace include the following libraries and drivers for GPU acceleration on the cloud: CUDA 8 and 9, cuDNN 6 and 7, NCCL 2.0.5 libraries and. To assist with installation of the AMI version that best fits your needs, we have added wizard directly in the AWS console, created a step-by-step guide and provided additional how-to resources in our new documentation site.