- Make sure the region you want to work in gives access to P2 or G3 instances. These instances include NVIDIA K80 GPUs and NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs, respectively. The K80 GPU is faster and has more GPU memory than the M60 GPU: 12 GB versus 8 GB.
While the NVIDIA K80 and M60 GPUs are powerful GPUs for running deep learning models, these should not be considered state-of-the-art. Other faster GPUs have already been launched by NVIDIA and it takes some time before these are added to cloud solutions. However, a big advantage of these cloud machines is that it is straightforward to scale the number of GPUs attached to a machine; for example, Amazon's p2.16xlarge instance has 16 GPUs.
- There are two options when launching an AWS instance. ...