docs: add AWS (EC2/SageMaker) deployment + benchmarking guide (#3352)

* docs: add AWS (EC2/SageMaker) deployment + benchmarking guide

- Add an AWS deployment tutorial for EC2 + SageMaker
- Fix SageMaker example indentation and link to the new guide
- Add the new guide to the docs toctree

* docs: address AWS deployment review feedback

* Apply suggestion from code review

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Co-authored-by: Fahad Alghanim <fkalghan@email.sc.edu>
Co-authored-by: Alvaro Bartolome <36760800+alvarobartt@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: 3 people

docs/source/_toctree.yml

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
     title: Serving Private & Gated Models
   - local: basic_tutorials/using_cli
     title: Using TGI CLI
+  - local: basic_tutorials/deploy_aws
+    title: Deploying on AWS (EC2 and SageMaker)
   - local: basic_tutorials/non_core_models
     title: Non-core Model Serving
   - local: basic_tutorials/safety

docs/source/basic_tutorials/deploy_aws.md

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+# Deploying TGI on AWS (EC2 and SageMaker)
+
+This guide shows how to deploy **Text Generation Inference (TGI)** on AWS and how to benchmark it in a way that is useful for capacity planning.
+
+## Deploy on EC2 (Docker)
+
+For most setups, the simplest path is to run the official container on an EC2 GPU instance.
+
+1. **Launch an EC2 GPU instance** (for example `g5.*` for NVIDIA GPUs).
+2. **Install Docker + NVIDIA Container Toolkit** (see [Using TGI with Nvidia GPUs](../installation_nvidia) and NVIDIA’s installation docs).
+3. **Run TGI**:
+
+```bash
+model=HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta
+volume=$PWD/data
+
+docker run --gpus all --shm-size 1g -p 8080:80 -v $volume:/data \
+  ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:3.3.5 \
+  --model-id "$model"
+```
+
+4. **Send Chat Completions API request**:
+
+```bash
+curl 127.0.0.1:8080/v1/chat/completions \
+  -X POST \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d '{"model":"tgi","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"What is Deep Learning?"}]}'
+```
+
+## Deploy on SageMaker (real-time endpoint)
+
+```bash
+pip install "sagemaker<3.0.0" --upgrade --quiet
+```
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> [SageMaker Python SDK v3 has been recently released](https://github.com/aws/sagemaker-python-sdk), so unless specified otherwise, all the documentation and tutorials are still using the [SageMaker Python SDK v2](https://github.com/aws/sagemaker-python-sdk/tree/master-v2). We are actively working on updating all the tutorials and examples, but in the meantime make sure to install the SageMaker SDK as `pip install "sagemaker<3.0.0"`.
+TGI includes a SageMaker compatibility route (`POST /invocations`) and a SageMaker entrypoint (`sagemaker-entrypoint.sh`) that maps SageMaker environment variables to TGI launcher settings. The `/invocations` route forwards requests to `/v1/chat/completions` underneath.
+
+> **Warning:** For this flow, use the AWS SageMaker SDK `< 3.0`. For example: `pip install "sagemaker<3"`.
+
+If you are using Hugging Face’s SageMaker integration (recommended), you typically only need to set the model environment variables:
+
+- **`HF_MODEL_ID`**: model id on the Hub (required)
+- **`HF_MODEL_REVISION`**: optional revision
+- **`SM_NUM_GPUS`**: number of GPUs (SageMaker sets this)
+- **`HF_MODEL_QUANTIZE`**: optional quantization
+- **`HF_MODEL_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE`**: optional trust remote code flag
+
+For a minimal example using the Hugging Face SageMaker SDK and the official TGI image URI:
+
+```python
+import json
+import boto3
+import sagemaker
+from sagemaker.huggingface import HuggingFaceModel, get_huggingface_llm_image_uri
+
+try:
+    role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
+except ValueError:
+    iam = boto3.client("iam")
+    role = iam.get_role(RoleName="sagemaker_execution_role")["Role"]["Arn"]
+
+hub = {
+    "HF_MODEL_ID": "HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta",
+    # SageMaker expects SM_NUM_GPUS to be a JSON-encoded int
+    "SM_NUM_GPUS": json.dumps(1),
+}
+
+huggingface_model = HuggingFaceModel(
+    image_uri=get_huggingface_llm_image_uri("huggingface", version="3.3.5"),
+    env=hub,
+    role=role,
+)
+
+predictor = huggingface_model.deploy(
+    initial_instance_count=1,
+    instance_type="ml.g5.2xlarge",
+    container_startup_health_check_timeout=300,
+)
+
+predictor.predict(
+    {
+        "messages": [
+            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
+            {"role": "user", "content": "What is deep learning?"},
+        ]
+    }
+)
+```
+
+## Benchmarking (what to measure, and how)
+
+For meaningful benchmarks, measure both:
+
+- **Client-visible latency** (end-to-end): p50/p95, time-to-first-token (TTFT), tokens/sec
+- **Server-side performance metrics** (to attribute bottlenecks): see [metrics](../reference/metrics)
+
+### End-to-end HTTP benchmark (recommended for EC2/SageMaker)
+
+Use a load generator from *outside* the instance/endpoint VPC when possible (to include network overhead), and run a warmup phase before measuring.
+
+You can use [inference-benchmarker](https://github.com/huggingface/inference-benchmarker) for end-to-end HTTP benchmarking.
+
+Example approach:
+
+1. Warm up with a small number of requests.
+2. Run a fixed-duration load test at a target concurrency.
+3. Record p50/p95 latency, error rate, and generated tokens/sec.
+
+### Microbenchmark (model server only)
+
+TGI also provides `text-generation-benchmark` (see the [benchmarking tool README](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/tree/main/benchmark#readme)). This tool connects directly to the model server over a Unix socket and bypasses the router, so it’s useful for low-level profiling and batch-size sweeps, but it is **not** an end-to-end benchmark for SageMaker/HTTP.

docs/source/reference/api_reference.md

@@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ TGI can be deployed on various cloud providers for scalable and robust text gene
 
 ## Amazon SageMaker
 
-Amazon Sagemaker natively supports the message API:
+Amazon SageMaker natively supports the Chat Completions API.
+
+For a complete deployment + benchmarking guide (including EC2), see [Deploying on AWS (EC2 and SageMaker)](../basic_tutorials/deploy_aws).
 
 ```python
 import json
@@ -150,36 +152,38 @@ import boto3
 from sagemaker.huggingface import HuggingFaceModel, get_huggingface_llm_image_uri
 
 try:
- role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
+    role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
 except ValueError:
- iam = boto3.client('iam')
- role = iam.get_role(RoleName='sagemaker_execution_role')['Role']['Arn']
+    iam = boto3.client("iam")
+    role = iam.get_role(RoleName="sagemaker_execution_role")["Role"]["Arn"]
 
 # Hub Model configuration. https://huggingface.co/models
 hub = {
- 'HF_MODEL_ID':'HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta',
- 'SM_NUM_GPUS': json.dumps(1),
+    "HF_MODEL_ID": "HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta",
+    "SM_NUM_GPUS": json.dumps(1),
 }
 
 # create Hugging Face Model Class
 huggingface_model = HuggingFaceModel(
- image_uri=get_huggingface_llm_image_uri("huggingface",version="3.3.5"),
- env=hub,
- role=role,
+    image_uri=get_huggingface_llm_image_uri("huggingface", version="3.3.5"),
+    env=hub,
+    role=role,
 )
 
 # deploy model to SageMaker Inference
 predictor = huggingface_model.deploy(
- initial_instance_count=1,
- instance_type="ml.g5.2xlarge",
- container_startup_health_check_timeout=300,
-  )
+    initial_instance_count=1,
+    instance_type="ml.g5.2xlarge",
+    container_startup_health_check_timeout=300,
+)
 
 # send request
-predictor.predict({
-"messages": [
-        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
-        {"role": "user", "content": "What is deep learning?"}
-    ]
-})
+predictor.predict(
+    {
+        "messages": [
+            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
+            {"role": "user", "content": "What is deep learning?"},
+        ]
+    }
+)
 ```