# Pulling multi-gigabyte container images in seconds on Amazon EKS

DevFeed: [Pulling multi-gigabyte container images in seconds on Amazon EKS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pulling-multi-gigabyte-container-images-in-seconds-on-amazon-eks-17615.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://thenewstack.io/accelerating-eks-image-pulls/>)

Author: Sri Saran Balaji Vellore Rajakumar

Published: 2026-08-10T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Kubernetes Overview, News and Trends | The New Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kubernetes-overview-news-and-trends-the-new-stack.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service.md>), [container images](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-images.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>), [CUDA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cuda.md>)

Tags: [ai-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-infrastructure.md>), [amazon-eks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-eks.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [aws-marketplace](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-marketplace.md>), [container](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container.md>), [container-images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-images.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [cuda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cuda.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [post-contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-contributed.md>), [sponsor-aws-marketplace](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sponsor-aws-marketplace.md>), [sponsored-post-contributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sponsored-post-contributed.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how a production ML platform on Amazon EKS reduced multi-minute pulls of roughly 30 GB container images to seconds. Profiling found that software use of available hardware, rather than network bandwidth or the registry, was the main constraint; the resulting changes are available by default in EKS Auto Mode and were contributed upstream to containerd and the SOCI snapshotter.

## Source excerpt

When the image is the bottleneck: Machine learning changed what a container image looks like. A typical application ships in The post Pulling multi-gigabyte container images in seconds on Amazon EKS appeared first on The New Stack.