Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). EKS customers can now enjoy the improved security features, optimized boot times, and newer kernel versions of AL2023 for their workloads using NVIDIA GPU, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium instances.

These new AMIs are based on the Amazon EKS optimized AMI for AL2023 and include support for NVIDIA and AWS Neuron workloads. The EKS Optimized NVIDIA AMI includes NVIDIA drivers, NVIDIA Fabric Manager and NVIDIA container toolkit, and the EKS Optimized Neuron AMI includes the Neuron driver. Both AMIs also come with the software needed to use AWS Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network interfaces. Customers can choose either the NVIDIA or Neuron AMI with EKS Managed Node Groups, self-managed nodes, and Karpenter.

EKS optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 are generally available in all AWS Regions including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions across all standard supported EKS versions as well as extended support versions 1.23 and higher.

To learn more about using Amazon Linux 2023 for your accelerated workloads on Amazon EKS, see Amazon EKS optimized accelerated Amazon Linux AMIs and building your own custom Amazon Linux AMIs in the Amazon EKS documentation.