Posted On: Nov 28, 2022
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances and Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances. These sixth-generation network optimized instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are the first x86-based general purpose and memory-optimized instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. These instances deliver up to 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. You can scale the performance of applications such as SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory databases (SAP HANA), Telco applications (5G User Plane Function (UPF)), high performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, and real-time big data analytics.
For increased scalability, M6in and M6idn instances are available in 9 different instance sizes with up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory. Similarly, R6in and R6idn instances are available in 9 different instance sizes with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory. The new instances offer up to 33% larger instance sizes and up to 20% higher memory bandwidth than fifth-generation instances. They also deliver up to 80 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth and up to 350K IOPS, the highest Amazon EBS performance across EC2 instances. Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support is offered on 32xlarge size. EFA-enabled instances provide lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters, such as distributed computing and high performance computing (HPC). For applications that require high-speed, low-latency local block storage, M6idn and R6idn instances are equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk (SSD).
The M6in and M6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and Europe (Ireland). The R6in and R6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland).
To learn more, see the M6in and M6idn instances page and the R6in and R6idn instances page. To get started, see the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.