Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides customers the most options for compute so they can tailor the infrastructure to their business needs, and AMD is integral to these offerings. AMD-powered EC2 instances give customers the ability to run general purpose, memory intensive, burstable, compute intensive, and graphics intensive workloads.

AWS and AMD have collaborated to give customers more choice and value in cloud computing, starting with the first generation AMD EPYC processors in 2018, expanding to the second generation AMD EPYC processors in 2020, and most recently with fourth generation AMD EPYC in the Amazon EC2 M7a, C7a, and R7a instances. Customers can use EC2 instances powered by AMD and enjoy scalable performance for a broad variety of workloads such as databases, mission critical enterprise applications, web scale in-memory databases and caches, big data analytics, batch processing, gaming, log analysis, remote workstations, transcoding, and rendering.

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Workloads

General Purpose

General Purpose

These workloads benefit from a balance of compute, memory, networking, and storage resources. Use cases include business critical applications, web and application servers, back-end servers for enterprise applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, and application development environments.

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Memory Optimized

Memory Optimized

Fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory. Examples include high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications.

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Graphics Intensive

Graphics Intensive

Customers looking to use remote workstations in the cloud for running graphics applications can use G4ad instances to get the flexibility to provision resources on a per project basis rather than being limited by on-premises capacity.

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Compute Intensive

Compute Intensive

Compute intensive applications benefit from high-performance processors and are bound by the amount of compute power that can be delivered. Examples include high-performance web servers, high-performance computing, batch processing, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics and machine/deep learning inference.

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Spiky Workloads

Spiky Workloads

Spiky workload applications have variable CPU usage that experience occasional spikes in demand that need to burst seamlessly to meet temporary traffic peaks and then scale back down to operate at typical traffic levels. Examples include microservices, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business critical applications.

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Customer Success Stories

Instances

  • M7a
  • Amazon EC2 M7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. M7a instances use leading edge DDR5 memory to enable high-speed access to memory and deliver 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to M6a instances. These instances are SAP-certified and ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput such as financial applications, application servers, simulation modeling, gaming, mid-size data stores, application development environments, and caching fleets.

  • C7a
  • Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. C7a instances use leading edge DDR5 memory and deliver 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to C6a instances. These instances are ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

  • R7a
  • Amazon EC2 R7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6a instances. R7a instances use leading edge DDR5 memory and deliver 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to R6a instances. These instances are SAP-certified and ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications.

  • Hpc7a
  • Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances feature 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors and are designed for tightly coupled, compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and multiphysics simulations.

  • M6a
  • Amazon EC2 M6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to M5a instances, and 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. M6a instances provide two more instance sizes than M5a (32xlarge and 48xlarge), with up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of memory in the 48xlarge size, twice that of the largest M5a instance. M6a also give customers up to 50 Gbps of networking speed and 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store, more than twice that of M5a instances.

  • R6a
  • Amazon EC2 R6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to R5a instances, and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based Amazon EC2 instances. R6a instances also offer new larger sizes with up to 192 vCPUs and 1,536 GiB of memory. These instances are SAP-Certified and are an ideal fit for memory-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases; distributed web scale in-memory caches, such as Memcached and Redis; in-memory databases and real-time big data analytics, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters; and other enterprise applications.

  • C6a
  • Amazon EC2 C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5a instances, and offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. C6a instances also offer new larger sizes with up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory, enabling you to consolidate workloads on fewer instances and save on per core licensing costs. These instances feature more than twice the network bandwidth of C5a instances, and are designed for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

  • G4ad
  • Amazon EC2 G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud. These instances offer up to 45 percent better price performance compared to G4dn instances, which were already the lowest cost instances in the cloud, for graphics applications. They provide up to 4 AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, 64 vCPUs, 25 Gbps networking, and 2.4 TB local NVMe-based SSD storage.

  • T3a
  • Amazon EC2 T3a instances feature AMD EPYC 7000 series processors with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz. The AMD-based instances provide additional options for customers that do not fully utilize the compute resources and can benefit from a cost savings of 10 percent.

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