Why Amazon EC2 Inf2 Instances?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are purpose built for deep learning (DL) inference. They deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision transformers. You can use Inf2 instances to run your inference applications for text summarization, code generation, video and image generation, speech recognition, personalization, fraud detection, and more.
Inf2 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia2, the second-generation AWS Inferentia chip. Inf2 instances raise the performance of Inf1 by delivering 3x higher compute performance, 4x larger total accelerator memory, up to 4x higher throughput, and up to 10x lower latency. Inf2 instances are the first inference-optimized instances in Amazon EC2 to support scale-out distributed inference with ultra-high-speed connectivity between Inferentia chips. You can now efficiently and cost-effectively deploy models with hundreds of billions of parameters across multiple chips on Inf2 instances.
The AWS Neuron SDK helps developers deploy models on the AWS Inferentia chips (and train them on AWS Trainium chips). It integrates natively with frameworks, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, so you can continue using your existing workflows and application code and run on Inf2 instances.
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Product details
Instance Size | Inferentia2 Chips | Accelerator Memory (GB) |
vCPU | Memory (GiB) |
Local Storage |
Inter-Chip Interconnect |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) |
EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) |
On-Demand Price | 1-Year Reserved Instance | 3-Year Reserved Instance |
inf2.xlarge | 1 | 32 | 4 | 16 | EBS Only | N/A | Up to 15 | Up to 10 | $0.76 | $0.45 | $0.30 |
inf2.8xlarge | 1 | 32 | 32 | 128 | EBS Only | N/A | Up to 25 | 10 | $1.97 | $1.81 | $0.79 |
inf2.24xlarge | 6 | 192 | 96 | 384 | EBS Only | Yes | 50 | 30 | $6.49 | $3.89 | $2.60 |
inf2.48xlarge | 12 | 384 | 192 | 768 | EBS Only | Yes | 100 | 60 | $12.98 | $7.79 | $5.19 |
Customer and Partner testimonials
Here are some examples of how customers and partners have achieved their business goals with Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances.
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Leonardo.ai
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Runway
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Qualtrics
Qualtrics designs and develops experience management software.
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Finch Computing
Finch Computing is a natural language technology company providing artificial intelligence applications for government, financial services, and data integrator clients.
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Money Forward Inc.
Money Forward Inc. serves businesses and individuals with an open and fair financial platform. As part of this platform, HiTTO Inc., a Money Forward group company, offers an AI chatbot service, which uses tailored natural language processing (NLP) models to address the diverse needs of their corporate customers.
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Fileread
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Yaraku
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Hugging Face
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PyTorch
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Weights & Biases
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OctoML
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Nextira
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Amazon CodeWhisperer
Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion that generates real-time single-line or full-function code recommendations in your integrated development environment (IDE) to help you quickly build software.
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Amazon Search
Amazon's product search engine indexes billions of products, serves billions of customer queries daily, and is one of the most heavily used services in the world.