Posted On: Nov 2, 2021
Starting today, Amazon EC2 T4g instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. T4g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. These instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. They offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, including large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications.
AWS Graviton2 processors are custom-built by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores to enable the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. They deliver a major leap in performance and capabilities over first-generation AWS Graviton processors, with 7x performance, 4x the number of compute cores, 2x larger caches, and 5x faster memory. AWS Graviton2 processors feature always-on 256-bit DRAM encryption and 50% faster per core encryption performance compared to the first-generation AWS Graviton processors.
Amazon EC2 T4g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. T4g instances provide up to 5 Gbps networking bandwidth, and 2,780 Mbps of Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. They are available in 7 sizes, providing up to 8 vCPUs, and are purchasable as part of Savings Plans, On-Demand, as Reserved instances, or as Spot instances. They are supported by a broad and growing ecosystem of operating systems and services from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) as well as AWS.
With this regional expansion, Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (San Francisco), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), Europe (Milan) regions, China (Ningxia) China (Beijing) regions, and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.
To get started with AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 T4g instances visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the AWS Graviton page or the Getting Started Github page.