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Use AMIs that include NVIDIA drivers

Amazon and NVIDIA offer different Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that come with the NVIDIA drivers installed.

To review considerations that are dependent on your operating system (OS) platform, choose the tab that applies to your AMI.

Linux

To update the driver version installed using one of these AMIs, you must uninstall the NVIDIA packages from your instance to avoid version conflicts. Use this command to uninstall the NVIDIA packages:

[ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum erase nvidia cuda

The CUDA toolkit package has dependencies on the NVIDIA drivers. Uninstalling the NVIDIA packages erases the CUDA toolkit. You must reinstall the CUDA toolkit after installing the NVIDIA driver.

Windows

If you create a custom Windows AMI using one of the Amazon Web Services Marketplace offerings, the AMI must be a standardized image created with Windows Sysprep to ensure that the GRID driver works. For more information, see Create an Amazon EC2 AMI using Windows Sysprep.