AWS Reports 40% More MoE Reinforcement-Learning Rollout Throughput with EKS, EFA, and DeepEP
AWS describes a Mixture-of-Experts reinforcement-learning architecture combining Amazon EKS, EFA, DeepEP, and Amazon S3, and reports a 40% increase in aggregate rollout throughput for large-scale RLHF and GRPO training.

Full Report
AWS has published an article on scaling Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS. The architecture combines Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), DeepEP, and Amazon S3 for large-scale RLHF and GRPO training workloads.
AWS reports that the architecture increased aggregate reinforcement-learning rollout throughput by 40%. For teams generating rollouts as part of training, throughput is a measure of how quickly that work can be completed. The result offers a performance reference for the workloads described by AWS, but does not establish that other environments will achieve the same gain.
Why This Matters
Rollout throughput affects how quickly reinforcement-learning training workflows can generate data. AWS’s reported 40% increase gives teams considering EKS for large-scale RLHF or GRPO a concrete performance reference for the described architecture.
Evidence
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Primary Evidence
1Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput
Ashvin Nihalani
“Learn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. This post presents an architecture that combines Amazon EKS, EFA, and Amazon S3 and increased aggregate reinforcement learning rollout throughput by 40% for large-scale RLHF and GRPO training.”
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