Now Use Chainer 5.0 on AWS Deep Learning AMIs

Posted on: Nov 5, 2018

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come with Chainer 5.0, which includes support for Python 3.6 and iDeep 2.0. As with other frameworks, Deep Learning AMIs offer optimized builds of Chainer 5.0 that are fine-tuned and fully-configured for high performance deep learning on Amazon EC2 CPU and GPU instances.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs also support other popular frameworks including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Apache MXNet —all pre-installed and fully-configured for you to start developing your deep learning models in minutes while taking full advantage of the computational power of Amazon EC2 instances. For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning AMI, see the release notes.

Get started quickly with the AWS Deep Learning AMIs using the getting-started guides and beginner to advanced level tutorials in our developer guide. You can also subscribe to our discussion forum to get launch announcements and post your questions.