AWS and Intel
Partnering since 2006 to power every AWS generation with Intel technology
Why Intel and AWS?
Since launching EC2 in 2006, AWS and Intel have built a transformative partnership that powers Intel-based instances across every AWS region globally. This collaboration delivers the proven performance, security, and reliability that customers trust. Intel technology has provided the foundation for our most powerful and scalable cloud solutions, enabling customers to accelerate innovation while managing costs and complexity.
Learn more about the new 8th generation, Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors.
Industries and Use Cases
Automotive
Financial Services
Healthcare/Life Sciences
Public Sector
Telco/IoT/Edge
Media/Entertainment
From Cloud to Edge: Intel Powers AWS Workloads
Powering your most demanding workloads - from enterprise applications and high-performance databases to AI. AWS and Intel deliver optimized cloud solutions that drive competitive advantage and are designed to accelerate performance for web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch processing, microservices, gaming, and video streaming.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
AWS and Intel optimize AI/ML workloads across our comprehensive instance portfolio, featuring advanced capabilities like Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) with FP16 data-type support for enhanced CPU-based inference. Whether you're running machine learning inference, analyzing user behavior, or deploying recommendation engines, our jointly engineered platforms provide the performance, scalability, and cost efficiency your AI workloads demand—all backed by the highest compute performance and fastest memory among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.
Enterprise Migration and Modernization
Accelerate your digital transformation by migrating business-critical workloads to AWS's secure, innovative cloud environment powered by Intel technology. From SAP HANA and VMware Cloud to Red Hat OpenShift and Windows applications, AWS and Intel provide optimized performance and proven expertise for your enterprise workloads.Whether you're modernizing SAP applications, running Windows and SQL Server workloads, or deploying containerized applications, AWS and Intel offer the most comprehensive and secure foundation for your migration journey.
High Performance Computing (HPC)
AWS and Intel deliver comprehensive high-performance computing solutions optimized for your most demanding workloads. Our latest EC2 instances feature Intel Xeon processors that provide superior price-performance for data-intensive applications, from financial modeling and genomic research to weather simulation and computational fluid dynamics.
Edge/Hybrid with Outpost
AWS and Intel collaborate to provide seamless cloud-to-edge and hybrid solutions, enabling organizations to leverage consistent Intel technology across their entire infrastructure. With AWS Outposts, customers can extend their AWS environment to on-premises locations, benefiting from the same infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools they use in the AWS cloud.This hybrid approach, powered by Intel Xeon processors, delivers high-performance computing and low-latency networking for edge workloads. Whether running VMware Cloud, extending AI capabilities to the edge, or deploying private networks, AWS and Intel's joint solutions ensure a unified experience. This powerful combination allows businesses to seamlessly extend their virtual private cloud on-premises, optimize IoT deployments, and accelerate innovation at the edge while maintaining the security, scalability, and familiar operational model of AWS.
Case Studies
Explore the latest case studies and videos from our partners and customers to learn how together we’re creating technology that moves the world forward.
Itaú Unibanco’s Cloud Migration Reduces Cost, Improves Scale, and Enables App Updates in Days Rather than Months – Itaú Unibanco’s Replatform Migration Journey
Moving legacy applications from an on-premise data center to Amazon EC2 Instances with Intel® Xeon® processors digitally transforms and enhances the customer banking experience.
Technology Innovation Institute Democratizes GenAI in Public, Private, and Academic Settings Through its Open-Source Falcon LLMs
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and Intel collaborate to optimize Falcon 2 11B LLMs for Amazon instances featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, making GenAI deployment faster and more affordable.
US Census Bureau Migrates its Legacy Systems to an AI-Ready Cloud Solution, Saving Time and Cost
The US Census Bureau, major companies, Amazon, and Intel architect a solution that accelerates and simplifies secure data collection and reporting.
Florida Crystals Corporation Migrated its SAP Infrastructure to Amazon EC2 Instances to Reduce Costs and Meet Sustainability Goals
Lemongrass, an SAP specialist, chose Amazon instances with underlying Intel® Xeon® Processors to maximize performance and workload flexibility.
Instance Types
Intel technologies are the hardware infrastructure powering many Amazon EC2 instances. These instances can be scaled and optimized with the right mix of resource capacity - CPU, memory, storage, and networking - to meet each customer’s specific workload needs.
General Purpose
Intel-based general purpose AWS instances offer balanced cloud infrastructure to suit a wide variety of workloads. These instances are ideal for applications that use compute, memory, and networking in equal proportions, such as web servers and code repositories.Learn more about general purpose instances ›
Compute Optimized
Compute optimized AWS instances enabled by Intel focus on delivering high performance for compute-intensive workloads, like media transcoding, HPC, scientific modeling, and high-traffic servers, including gaming services.
Accelerated Compute
These Intel-enabled AWS instances combine powerful CPUs with other add-in accelerators and GPUs to support workloads with intensive floating-point calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching.
Memory Optimized
For workloads that process large data sets in memory, AWS memory optimized instances enabled by Intel prioritize memory capacity and input/output speed.
Storage Optimized
Intel-enabled storage optimized instances focus on delivering high-capacity data storage with high sequential read/write speeds. This allows for low-latency data transmission to other applications