NVIDIA drivers do not work on Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I am using a P2 instance, running Ubuntu 18.04

I am required to use the Amazon NVIDIA GPU drivers.

I follow the instructions here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-nvidia-driver.html

BUT the installation fails with a big message saying:

*The CC version check failed:*

  *The kernel was built with gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3), but the current compiler version is cc (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) 7.4.0.*

  *This may lead to subtle problems; if you are not certain whether the mismatched compiler will be compatible with your kernel, you may wish to abort installation, set the CC environment variable to the name of*
  *the compiler used to compile your kernel, and restart installation.*

It is not possible to install an earlier version of the gcc compiler, so basically NVIDIA on EC2 is completely broken for Ubuntu 18.04