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Santosh Kumar

Author: Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar is a Senior Cloud Support Engineer based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He joined AWS 5 years back, a containers enthusiast over 3 years and passionate about helping AWS customers to design modern container based applications on AWS services. Learning is his passion and he holds various AWS certifications. Outside of work, Santosh loves cooking and spending time with his family.

Accelerate CPU-based AI inference workloads using Intel AMX on Amazon EC2

This post shows you how to accelerate your AI inference workloads by up to 76% using Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) – an accelerator that uses specialized hardware and instructions to perform matrix operations directly on processor cores – on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) 8th generation instances. You’ll learn when CPU-based inference is cost-effective, how to enable AMX with minimal code changes, and which configurations deliver optimal performance for your models.