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The steps are pretty neat. Also agree on the driver and tools installation. Just painful and long.

looks like there are seperate torch and caffe amis as well for amazon. Going to try later.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01B52CMSO

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01B4ZSX5S

The issue with using posted AMIs for this is the same as usual: they include god knows what else in addition to the installed and configured software (which is likely to also lag behind master / latest release quite a bit). Last few AMIs I tried for this included some random public keys as authorized users in a sudoer account! While they're likely benign (belonging to researchers that created these images), that'd be a nasty surprise to find in your data pipeline down the line.

This is a valid concern, which is one of the reasons we publish these AMIs through the AWS marketplace. Each of these AMIs had to go through the AWS security checker script as well as a manual review by the AWS marketplace team, please see the "Securing an AMI" section here.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/help/201231340

Going through the AWS audit does take a few days to say the least and can be a hassle at times, but usually we are pretty close to the latest master / release.

Cool, didn't know that about the Marketplace. Thanks for sharing.

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