Why Amazon EC2 DL1 Instances?
Amazon EC2 DL1 instances powered by Gaudi accelerators from Habana Labs (an Intel company), deliver low cost-to-train deep learning models for natural language processing, object detection, and image recognition use cases. DL1 instances provide up to 40% better price performance for training deep learning models compared to current generation GPU-based EC2 instances.
Amazon EC2 DL1 instances feature 8 Gaudi accelerators with 32 GiB of high bandwidth memory (HBM) per accelerator, 768 GiB of system memory, custom 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, 400 Gbps of networking throughput, and 4 TB of local NVMe storage.
DL1 instances include the Habana SynapseAI® SDK, that is integrated with leading machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
You can get started on DL1 instances easily, using AWS Deep Learning AMIs or AWS Deep Learning Containers, or Amazon EKS and ECS for containerized applications. Support for DL1 instances in Amazon SageMaker is coming soon.
New Amazon EC2 DL1 instances overview video
Benefits
Features
Product details
Instance Size |
vCPU |
Instance Memory (GiB) |
Gaudi Accelerators |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) |
Accelerator Peer-to-Peer Bidirectional (Gbps) |
Instance Storage (GB) | EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) | On-demand (Price/hr) | 1-yr Reserved Instance Effective hourly* | 3-yr Reserved Instance Effective hourly* |
dl1.24xlarge |
96 |
768 |
8 |
400 |
100 |
4 x 1000 NVMe SSD |
19 | $13.11 | $7.87 | $5.24 |
*Prices shown are for US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.
Customer and Partner testimonials
Here are some examples of how customers and partners have achieved their business goals with Amazon EC2 DL1 instances.
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Seagate
Seagate Technology has been a global leader offering data storage and management solutions for over 40 years. Seagate’s data science and machine learning engineers have built an advanced deep learning (DL) defect detection system and deployed it globally across the company’s manufacturing facilities. In a recent proof of concept project, Habana Gaudi exceeded the performance targets for training one of the DL semantic segmentation models currently used in Seagate’s production.
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Leidos
Leidos is recognized as a Top 10 Health IT provider delivering a broad range of customizable, scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health.
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Intel
Intel has created 3D Athlete Tracking technology that analyzes athlete-in-action video in real time to inform performance training processes and enhance audience experiences during competitions.
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RiskFuel
RiskFuel provides real-time valuations and risk sensitivities to companies managing financial portfolios, helping them increase trading accuracy and performance.
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Fractal
Fractal is a global leader in artificial intelligence and analytics, powering decisions in Fortune 500 companies.