Overview
NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ Development Workstation (Linux)
NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ is a reference application built on the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform that enables developers to simulate and test AI-driven robotics solutions in physically based virtual environments.
The NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ Development Workstation (Linux) AMI enables users to provision a workstation with graphical capabilities within AWS, eliminating the need to run Omniverse-based applications locally on an RTX-enabled workstation.
The NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ Development Workstation (Linux) AMI includes all the essential development tools and drivers to scale your robotics simulations:
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim™
- Visual Studio Code
- Docker
- Certified NVIDIA GPU drivers
This AMI uses the EC2 g6e instance featuring NVIDIA L40s RTX and the g7e instance featuring NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs.
This GPU-optimized AMI for Isaac Sim™ is free to use on AWS. (Infrastructure costs will apply.)
Use of the Isaac Sim™ workstation requires membership in the NVIDIA developers program, which developers can sign up for free at https://developer.nvidia.com . NVIDIA Isaac Sim is a free reference application built on NVIDIA Omniverse Kit. With a membership to the NVIDIA Developer Program, a free developer license is provided for Kit, which allows Isaac Sim to be freely used for non-production use.
The NICE DCV client is required to connect to this virtual machine.
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- All the essential development tools and drivers for NVIDIA Isaac Sim are pre-configured and ready to use.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
NVIDIA Isaac Sim Development Workstation (Linux)- 2026 Q1 Refresh
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Usage instructions
Prerequisites: To create and use Workstation instances you will need:
- AWS Account
- AWS Key Pair created for authentication
- AWS security group to control access to ports
- Port 22 for SSH
- Port 8443 for connecting with NICE DCV
- PuTTY application is installed. This enables SSH connection to the AMI instance from Windows.
- NICE DCV client installed
Launch the AMI: Navigate to the AWS Omniverse AMI marketplace product page
- To create your own AWS instance, click the View purchase options button
- If you have not already subscribed to the software, you will need to Accept Terms the first time
- When the subscription is completed, click the Continue to Configuration button
- On the Configure this software page list, click the Continue to Launch button
- On the Subscribe to page click Launch your software
- Under Setup click the Launch from EC2 Console option
- Under Launch click the Launch from EC2 button
- On the Launch an instance page
- Name your instance
- The AMI from catalog is automatically set to the correct AMI (no action required)
- Set Instance type to g6e.4xlarge
- Set Key Pair (login) select or create your Key Pair file. For Linux use .ppk. For Windows use .pem
- Set Network settings select either Select existing security group or Create security group option. For more information, select the info link
- Set Configure storage to a minimum of 512GiB
- In the Summary section on the right side of the page, click Launch instance
- On the Instances page, select the new Instance ID to display the information panel
- It takes a few minutes for the instance state to change from Initializing to Running
Linux only: Use PuTTY to connect to the running instance and NICE DCV to display the desktop GUI:
- Copy the Public IP Address of your instance from the Instance summary panel
- Start the PuTTY application
- Paste the Public IP address in the Host Name (or IP address) field
- Under Category click Connection > SSH > Auth > Credentials then browse to your Key Pair location containing the .ppk file
- Click Open to connect to the instance
- When prompted to login as enter ubuntu as the username
- In order to RDP into the AMI using NICE DCV, the default password must be changed using the sudo passwd ubuntu command. The output received should follow the format Session: console (owner:ubuntu type:console)
- To ensure that a DCV session is running on the intended AWS instance enter the sudo dcv list-sessions command
- Start the NICE DCV client application
- Enter the public IP address assigned to your AWS instance in the Hostname/IP Address field in NICE DCV, then click Connect
- Click Trust and Connect when prompted
- Enter ubuntu as the username in the Username field
- Enter the password that was previously set in the Password field
- Click Login
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Support
Vendor support
Free Community support is available through the NVIDIA Developer Forum (Omniverse): https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/omniverse/simulation/69 and
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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