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title: 'AWS-Deployment Guide'
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linkTitle: 'AWS-Deployment Guide'
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weight: 4
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description: 'Instructions for deploying CVAT on Nvidia GPU and other AWS machines.'
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---
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There are two ways of deploying the CVAT.
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1. **On Nvidia GPU Machine:** Tensorflow annotation feature is dependent on GPU hardware.
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One of the easy ways to launch CVAT with the tf-annotation app is to use AWS P3 instances,
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which provides the NVIDIA GPU.
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Read more about [P3 instances here.](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/introducing-amazon-ec2-p3-instances/)
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Overall setup instruction is explained in [main readme file](https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat/),
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except Installing Nvidia drivers.
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So we need to download the drivers and install it.
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For Amazon P3 instances, download the Nvidia Drivers from Nvidia website.
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For more check [Installing the NVIDIA Driver on Linux Instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-nvidia-driver.html)
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link.
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2. **On Any other AWS Machine:** We can follow the same instruction guide mentioned in the
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{{< ilink "/docs/administration/basics/installation" "installation instructions" >}}.
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The additional step is to add a [security group and rule to allow incoming connections](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-network-security.html).
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For any of above, don't forget to set the `CVAT_HOST` environment variable to the exposed
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AWS public IP address or hostname:
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```bash
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export CVAT_HOST=your-instance.amazonaws.com
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```
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In case of problems with using hostname, you can also use the public IPV4 instead of hostname.
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For AWS or any cloud based machines where the instances need to be terminated or stopped,
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the public IPV4 and hostname changes with every stop and reboot.
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To address this efficiently, avoid using spot instances that cannot be stopped,
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since copying the EBS to an AMI and restarting it throws problems.
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On the other hand, when a regular instance is stopped and restarted,
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the new hostname/IPV4 can be used to set the `CVAT_HOST` environment variable.
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