Posted On: Mar 13, 2025
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 in 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 the Amazon Web Services regions, including the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. For additional information about running GPU-accelerated workloads with Amazon ECS, refer to the documentation and release notes.
