Deep Learning AMI release v2.0 now Available for Amazon Linux

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You can now use upgraded versions of Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, CNTK, and Caffe, on the AWS Deep Learning AMI v2.0 for Amazon Linux, including Keras, available in the AWS Marketplace.

The Deep Learning AMI v2.0 for Amazon Linux is designed to continue to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for deep learning applications running on Amazon EC2. The latest MXNet release (v0.9.3) included with this AMI v2.0 adds several enhancements including a faster new image processing API that enables parallel processing, improved multi GPU performance and support for new operators. This AMI includes the following framework versions:  MXNet: v0.9.3; Tensorflow v1.0.0; Caffe release: rc5; Theano: rel 0.8.2; Keras: 1.2.2; CNTK: v2.0 beta12.0; and Torch: master branch.

The Deep Learning AMI includes Jupyter notebooks with Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 kernels, Matplotlib, Scikit-image, CppLint, Pylint, pandas, Graphviz, Bokeh Python packages, Boto and Boto 3 and the AWS CLI. The DL AMI also comes packaged with Anaconda 2 and Anaconda 3 Data Science platform.