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2025

Efficient distributed training with AWS EFA

Amazon Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a high-performance network interface designed for AWS EC2 instances, enabling ultra-low latency and high-throughput communication between nodes. This makes it an ideal solution for scaling distributed training workloads across multiple GPUs and instances.

With the latest release of dstack, you can now leverage AWS EFA to supercharge your distributed training tasks.

Auto-shutdown for inactive dev environments—no idle GPUs

Whether you’re using cloud or on-prem compute, you may want to test your code before launching a training task or deploying a service. dstack’s dev environments make this easy by setting up a remote machine, cloning your repository, and configuring your IDE —all within a container that has GPU access.

One issue with dev environments is forgetting to stop them or closing your laptop, leaving the GPU idle and costly. With our latest update, dstack now detects inactive environments and automatically shuts them down, saving you money.

Introducing GPU blocks and proxy jump for SSH fleets

Recent breakthroughs in open-source AI have made AI infrastructure accessible beyond public clouds, driving demand for running AI workloads in on-premises data centers and private clouds. This shift offers organizations both high-performant clusters and flexibility and control.

However, Kubernetes, while a popular choice for traditional deployments, is often too complex and low-level to address the needs of AI teams.

Originally, dstack was focused on public clouds. With the new release, dstack extends support to data centers and private clouds, offering a simpler, AI-native solution that replaces Kubernetes and Slurm.

Supporting NVIDIA and AMD accelerators on Vultr

As demand for AI infrastructure grows, the need for efficient, vendor-neutral orchestration tools is becoming increasingly important. At dstack, we’re committed to redefining AI container orchestration by prioritizing an AI-native, open-source-first approach. Today, we’re excited to share a new integration and partnership with Vultr .

This new integration enables Vultr customers to train and deploy models on both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs with greater flexibility and efficiency–using dstack.