• Please follow the instructions at launch an Amazon EC2 Instance to Launch an Trn1 instance, when choosing the instance type at the EC2 console. Please make sure to select the correct instance type. To get more information about Trn1 instances sizes and pricing see Trn1 web page.

  • Select your Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of choice, please note that Neuron support Ubuntu 18 AMI or Amazon Linux 2 AMI, you can also choose Ubuntu 18 or Amazon Linux 2 Deep Learning AMI (DLAMI)

  • When launching a Trn1, please adjust your primary EBS volume size to a minimum of 512GB.

  • After launching the instance, follow the instructions in Connect to your instance to connect to the instance

Note

If you are facing a connectivity issue during the model loading process on a Trn1 instance with Ubuntu, that could probably be because of Ubuntu limitations with multiple interfaces. To solve this problem, please follow the steps mentioned here.

Users are highly encouraged to use DLAMI to launch the instances, since DLAMIs come with the required fix.