aws sagemaker gpu instances

You train models on GPU in the SageMaker ecosystem via 2 different components:

You can instantiate a GPU-powered SageMaker Notebook Instance, for example p2.xlarge (NVIDIA K80) or p3.2xlarge (NVIDIA V100). This is convenient for interactive development - you have the GPU right under your notebook and can run code on the GPU interactively and monitor the GPU via nvidia-smi in a terminal tab - a great development experience. However when you develop directly from a GPU-powered machine, there are times when you may not use the GPU. For example when you write code or browse some documentation. All that time you pay for a GPU that sits idle. In that regard, it may not be the most cost-effective option for your use-case.
Another option is to use a SageMaker Training Job running on a GPU instance. This is a preferred option for training, because training metadata (data and model path, hyperparameters, cluster specification, etc) is persisted in the SageMaker metadata store, logs and metrics stored in Cloudwatch and the instance automatically shuts down itself at the end of training. Developing on a small CPU instance and launching training tasks using SageMaker Training API will help you make the most of your budget, while helping you retain metadata and artifacts of all your experiments. You can see here a well documented TensorFlow example

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If you want to train your model in a Sagemaker Studio notebook make sure you choose both a GPU instance type and GPU Image type: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/notebooks-available-images.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/notebooks-available-instance-types.html

For example for Tensorflow GPU:

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Train and deploy a custom GPU-supported ML model on Amazon SageMaker - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

However, it can be time-consuming ... (AWS) Cloud. This pattern helps you train and build a custom GPU-supported ML model using Amazon SageMaker. It provides steps to train and deploy a custom CatBoost model built on an open-source Amazon reviews dataset. You can then benchmark its performance ...

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Which GPU instances are supported by the sagemaker algorithm forecasting-deepar? | AWS re:Post

Hi, thanks for pointing this out. Indeed, all g4dn instances are currently not supported by the forecasting-deepar algorithm, but as you rightly point out, this is currently not documented. I will raise this with the service team to include in in the documentation. In the meantime, you can try out the P3 instances instead - these are also powerful GPU instances and should help you speed up the training time.

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r/aws on Reddit: GPU optimized instances only able to be launched through Sagemaker Studio? (and not as a sagemaker notebook)

April 14, 2021 -

Tried posting this to the aws dev forums with no luck. I assume it's a bit of a niche issue:

Running some tensorflow neural nets so I've been using an accelerated computing ml.g4dn.xlarge setup. However I am unable to launch it as a notebook (which would allow me to access it remotely) and only able to launch it through the sagemaker studio and therefore only able to use it on the jupyter lab. I've tried both the GUI where it's not on the dropdown and the aws-cli, which tells me that it's not part of the list of possible notebooks. I've also checked and the region (eu-west-1) seems to be okay.

If anyone has any ideas of things you would look into I'd be very appreciative as I don't have access to premium support and am quite stuck on this one.

Have you tried via the CLI? What error do you get?

There are supported GPU instances (p3*, p2*) for Notebook Instances. If the g4 is not in the drop down and you cannot select the instance type via the CLI then it is not available for Notebook Instances in that region (and others). You wouldn’t be able to remotely access the Notebook Instance either. It’s the same as studio, you get a presigned URL to access via your web browser.

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How to Use AWS SageMaker on GPU for HighPerformance Machine Learning | Saturn Cloud Blog

March 12, 2024 - Choose the Right Instance Type: ... learning workload requirements. SageMaker offers various GPU-enabled instances like p3 and g4 instances....

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Economics of ML on Amazon AWS SageMaker - to GPU or ...

July 12, 2019 - For inference, DeepAR supports only CPU instances. ... Not all algorithms can make use of GPU. Have you looked into whether DeepAR can use GPU and the performance difference? ... Make sure you pay attention to the training job timeout parameter too. A lot of the sagemaker notebook examples default to something absurdly high. We naively copied code and had a bad parameter and a p2 took all weekend instead of timing out in an hour. AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs

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Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports G6e instances | Artificial Intelligence

November 22, 2024 - As the demand for generative AI continues to grow, developers and enterprises seek more flexible, cost-effective, and powerful accelerators to meet their needs. Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of G6e instances powered by ...

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Holori - Ultimate AWS Sagemaker pricing guide

October 23, 2024 - Training a model is one of the most resource-intensive and costly aspects. SageMaker charges based on: Training instance type: More powerful instances like ml.p3.16xlarge with GPUs will cost significantly more than CPU-based instances.

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Instance Types for Built-in Algorithms - Amazon SageMaker AI

October 16, 2025 - Most Amazon SageMaker AI algorithms have been engineered to take advantage of GPU computing for training. Despite higher per-instance costs, GPUs train more quickly, making them more cost effective.

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Why not all compute instance in sagemaker have gpus ...

April 18, 2024 -

There literally are so many options to choose from, i am getting confused, would be helpful to get someones advice. Why do i see that many instances offered in aws sagemaker dont even have gpu?? i does that work? how is a llm model running without gpus?, only some models have gpu. some have more than 1. Any explaination on that will be helpful.

Machine learning is not only about LLMs and sagemaker is built to be universal. You can host a lot of predictive models like xgboost, decision trees and other on cpu. Even models like bert can be hosted on cpu (depending on latency requirements)

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Interesting point i guess, haven't worked with sagemaker personally, but the pricing is confusing with tons of instances and many of them have 0 gpus would love to know about this

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Amazon SageMaker notebook instances - Amazon SageMaker AI

The SageMaker notebook instances help create the environment by initiating Jupyter servers on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and providing preconfigured kernels with the following packages: the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK, AWS SDK for Python (Boto3), AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), Conda, Pandas, deep learning framework libraries, and other libraries for data science and machine learning.

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Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities now support Notebook with GPU-based Instances

September 5, 2023 - Support for GPU-based instances with the geospatial image makes it easier for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Customers use the geospatial image within SageMaker Studio Notebooks to develop and run end-to-end geospatial ML workloads.

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Unable to use a GPU instance in Sagemaker | AWS re:Post

There is a couple of things to check here: **G/P instance quota availability** Certain instances like G5, P4 needs a quota increase in AWS console as they're not enabled by default in your account. Probably the error show is refered to something like this: > ResourceLimitExceeded: The account-level service limit 'Studio KernelGateway Apps running on ml.g5.xlarge instance' is 0 Apps, with current utilization of 0 Apps and a request delta of 1 Apps. Please use AWS Service Quotas to request an increase for this quota. If AWS Service Quotas is not available, contact AWS support to request an increase for this quota You can check your EC2 quotas under Service Quotas in AWS console by searching for instance families like G (Filter: "**Running On-Demand G**") or P (Filter: "**Running On-Demand P**"). **EC2 Instance type available in region** On the other hand, if instance type doesn't appear in list probably means that is not available in chosen region where you have deployed SageMaker Studio. You can take a look to available instances per region for On-Demand Plans for Amazon EC2 and verify that instance type. **If you find this useful and solves your question, please remember to accept anwer.*

If you're looking for the g4dn.xlarge instance, the quota you want to increase is actually for Sagemaker, not for EC2. Studio JupyterLab Apps running on ml.g4dn.xlarge instances

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Instance Types to Use in SageMaker

Number of notebook instances: 20 · Number of running notebook instances: 10 · Number of notebook ml.p2.xlarge instances: 10 · Number of notebook ml.p3.16xlarge instances: 5 · Number of training ml.p3.16xlarge instances: 5 · ml.t2.medium: $0.0464/hour, 2 vCPUs, 4GB main memory, no GPU ·

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r/aws on Reddit: Is Sagemaker gpu instance g5.16xlarge enough for inferencing Mixtral-8x7b-Instruct?

March 16, 2024 -

I am using gpu instance “g5.16xlarge” to do inferencing for Mixtral-8x7b-Instruct in AWS Sagemaker, but I am getting an error which says “try changing instance type”.

Does anyone know if “g5.16xlarge” is sufficient for Mixtral-8x7b-Instruct? I noticed in AWS Sagemaker JumpStart, the only gpu instance I can select is “g5.48xlarge” for Mixtral-8x7b-Instruct. Does that mean I will need at least “g5.48xlarge” to run Mixtral-8x7b-Instruct in AWS Sagemaker?

Would really appreciate any input on this. Thanks heaps.

I have used g5.12xlarge for Mixtral-8x7b-instruct without issue. Not through jumpstart but by deploying via notebook and sdk. However this was for testing and inference load was low. I think the issue could be because of unavailability of the instance type(not sure without detailed log) you are using.