AWS Inferentia Reviews

AWS Inferentia Description

AWS Inferentia Accelerators are designed by AWS for high performance and low cost for deep learning (DL), inference applications. The first-generation AWS Inferentia accelerator powers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances. These instances deliver up to 2.3x more throughput and up 70% lower cost per input than comparable GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances. Inf1 instances have been adopted by many customers including Snap, Sprinklr and Money Forward. They have seen the performance and cost savings. The first-generation Inferentia features 8 GB of DDR4 memory per accelerator, as well as a large amount on-chip memory. Inferentia2 has 32 GB of HBM2e, which increases the total memory by 4x and memory bandwidth 10x more than Inferentia.