Announcing New AWS Deep Learning AMI for Microsoft Windows

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58 pointsaniketroy4 comments

The article doesn't make it easy to find the actual AMIs! The calls-to-action on the linked page https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/amis/ go to Marketplace search pages (or tutorials that lead you to them) that don't actually seem to have the Windows AMIs in question (there are third-party Windows deep learning AMIs, but with very different stacks.)

This seems to be the correct page, with a full technical specification and AMI identifiers: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlami/latest/devguide/WIN_2016.ht...

You can copy-paste, for instance, ami-d50381af (for us-east-1) into the Community AMIs search box in the Launch Wizard.

Do they provide access to GPU’s?

The documentation indicates they were tested on p2.16xlarge so yes.

From the post

The AMIs come prepackaged with Nvidia CUDA 9, cuDNN 7, and Nvidia 385.54 drivers, and contain the Anaconda platform (supports Python versions 2.7 and 3.5).

CUDA support and Nvidia drivers imply access to GPUs.

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