Amazon ECS now offers GPU-Optimized AMI for Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today introduced GPU-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). This new offering enables customers to run GPU-accelerated containerized workloads on Amazon ECS while leveraging improved security features and newer kernel version available on AL2023.

The new ECS GPU-optimized AMI is built on the minimal AL2023 base AMI and includes NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA Fabric Manager, NVIDIA Container Toolkit, and other essential packages needed to run GPU-accelerated container workloads. The new AMI supports a wide range of NVIDIA GPU architectures including Ampere, Turing, Volta, Maxwell, Hopper, and Ada Lovelace, and works out-of-the-box with no additional configuration required. The new AMI is designed for GPU-accelerated applications such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads running on Amazon ECS.

The ECS GPU-optimized AL2023 AMI is now available in all AWS regions. For additional information about running GPU-accelerated workloads with Amazon ECS, refer to the documentation and release notes.