Amazon EC2 Instance types

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processors. They are ideal for general purpose applications.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• With M7gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge, m7g.metal, m7gd.16xlarge, and m7gd.metal

• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

Amazon EC2 M7i instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 15% better price performance than M6i instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids 8488C)
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
• 2 metal sizes: m7i.metal-24xl and m7i.metal-48xl
• Discrete built-in accelerators (available on M7i bare metal sizes only)—Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—enable efficient offload and acceleration of data operations that help optimize performance for databases, encryption and compression, and queue management workloads
• Latest DDR5 memory, which offers more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Support for up to 128 EBS volume attachments per instance
  
• Up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 19% better price performance than M6i instances.

Features:

• Easiest way for you to achieve price performance and cost benefits in the cloud for a majority of your general-purpose workloads

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids 8488C)

• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations

• Latest DDR5 memory, which offers more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• EBS-optimized by default

• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Amazon EC2 M7a instances, powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.7 GHz 4th generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 9R14)
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking bandwidth
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  
• Instance sizes with up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of memory
• SAP-certified instances
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD secure memory encryption (SME)
• Support for new processor capabilities such as AVX3-512, VNNI, and bfloat16.

Use cases

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.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances allow you to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. By using EC2 Mac instances, you can create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari. These instances give developers access to macOS so they can develop, build, test, and sign applications that require the Xcode IDE. EC2 Mac instances are dedicated, bare-metal instances which are accessible in the EC2 console and via the AWS Command Line Interface as Dedicated Hosts.

x86-based EC2 Mac instances are powered by a combination of Mac mini computers—featuring:

• Intel’s 8th generation 3.2 GHz (4.6 GHz turbo) Core i7 processors
• 6 physical and 12 logical cores
  
• 32 GiB of memory
  
• Instance storage is available through Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  

EC2 M1 Mac instances are powered by a combination of Apple silicon Mac mini computers—featuring:

• Apple M1 chip with 8 CPU cores
  
• 8 GPU cores
  
• 16 GiB of memory
  
• 16-core Apple Neural Engine
  
• Instance storage is available through Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  

EC2 M1 Ultra Mac instances are powered by a combination of Apple silicon Mac Studio computers—featuring:

• Apple M1 Ultra chip with 20 CPU cores
  
• 64 GPU cores
  
• 128 GiB of memory
  
• 32-core Apple Neural Engine
  
• Instance storage is available through Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  

EC2 M2 Mac instances are powered by a combination of Apple silicon Mac mini computers—featuring:

• Apple M2 chip with 8 CPU cores
  
• 10 GPU cores
  
• 24 GiB of memory
  
• 16-core Apple Neural Engine
  
• Instance storage is available through Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  

EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances are powered by a combination of Apple silicon Mac mini computers—featuring:

• Apple M2 Pro chip with 12 CPU cores
• 19 GPU cores
• 32 GiB of memory
• 16-core Apple Neural Engine
• Instance storage is available through Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Use Cases

Developing, building, testing, and signing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, WatchOS, and tvOS applications on the Xcode IDE

Amazon EC2 M6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price/performance over current generation M5 instances and offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad set of workloads.

Features:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth
• EBS-optimized by default
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
  
• With M6gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance

Use Cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets.

Amazon EC2 M6i instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake). This family provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
  
• Up to 15% better compute price performance over M5 instances
• Up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to M5 instances
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  
• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithms
• With M6id instances, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M6i instance
  

Use Cases

These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as backend servers supporting enterprise applications (for example Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), gaming servers, caching fleets, and application development environments.

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as backend servers, enterprise, gaming servers, and caching fleets applications. Powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, they offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 80 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
• Up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to M5n and M5dn instances
• Up to 200 Gbps of networking speed, which is up to 2x compared to M5n and M5dn instances
• Up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, which is up to 5.2x compared to M5n and M5dn instances
• EFA support on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithms
• With M6idn instances, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M6idn instance
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use Cases:

These instances are SAP-Certified and ideal for workloads that can take advantage of high networking throughput. Workloads include high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, Telco applications, such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF), as well as and application development environments.

Amazon EC2 M6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are an ideal fit for general purpose workloads.

Features:

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13)
  
• Up to 35% better compute price performance over M5a instances
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
• Instance size with up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of memory
  
• SAP-Certified instances
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 48xlarge size
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD Transparent Single Key Memory Encryption (TSME)   
• Support for new AMD Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-2) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
  

Use Cases

These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as backend servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), multi-player gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments.

Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the latest generation of General Purpose Instances powered by Intel Xeon® Platinum 8175M or 8259CL processors. These instances provide a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications.

Features:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
• New larger instance size, m5.24xlarge, offering 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory
• Up to 25 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• With M5d instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M5 instance
• New 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes now available.
  

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 M5 instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources including web and application servers, small and mid-sized databases, cluster computing, gaming servers, and caching fleet. The higher bandwidth, M5n and M5dn, instance variants are ideal for applications that can take advantage of improved network throughput and packet rate performance.
Feature:

• 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8259CL) with a sustained all-core Turbo CPU frequency of 3.1 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz
• Support for the new Intel Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-512 VNNI) which will help speed up typical machine learning operations like convolution, and automatically improve inference performance over a wide range of deep learning workloads
• 25 Gbps of peak bandwidth on smaller instance sizes 
• 100 Gbps of network bandwidth on the largest instance size
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor 
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server 
• With M5dn instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M5 instance
  

Use Cases

Web and application servers, small and mid-sized databases, cluster computing, gaming servers, caching fleets, and other enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 M5zn instances deliver the fastest Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the cloud, with an all-core turbo frequency up to 4.5 GHz.

Features:

• 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8252C) with an all-core turbo frequency up to 4.5 GHz
• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth on the largest instance size and bare metal variant
• Up to 19 Gbps to the Amazon Elastic Block Store 
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• 12x and metal sizes of M5zn instances leverage the latest generation of the Elastic Network Adapter and enable consistent low latency with Elastic Fabric Adapter
  

Use Cases

M5zn instances are an ideal fit for applications that benefit from extremely high single-thread performance and high throughput, low latency networking, such as gaming, High Performance Computing, and simulation modeling for the automotive, aerospace, energy, and telecommunication industries.

Amazon EC2 M5a instances are the latest generation of General Purpose Instances powered by AMD EPYC 7000 series processors. M5a instances deliver up to 10% cost savings over comparable instance types. With M5ad instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance.

Features:

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz
  
• Up to 20 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
  
• With M5ad instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M5a instance
  

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 M4 instances provide a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and it is a good choice for many applications.

Features:

• Up to 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Broadwell E5-2686 v4 or Haswell E5-2676 v3)
• EBS-optimized by default at no additional cost
• Support for Enhanced Networking
• Balance of compute, memory, and network resources

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 T4g instances are powered by Arm-based custom built AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances for a broad set of burstable general purpose workloads.

T4g instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T4g instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T4g instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Features:

• Free trial for t4g.small instances for up to 750 hours per month until December 31st, 2024. Refer to the FAQ for details.
  
• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance
• Unlimited mode by default to ensure performance during peak periods and Standard mode option for a predictable monthly cost
• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
• EBS-optimized by default
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use Cases:

Micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business-critical applications.

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.

T3 instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T3 instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T3 instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Features:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL)
  
• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance
• Unlimited mode by default to ensure performance during peak periods and Standard mode option for a predictable monthly cost
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• AWS Nitro System and high frequency Intel Xeon Scalable processors result in up to a 30% price performance improvement over T2 instances

Use Cases:

Micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business-critical applications

Amazon EC2 T3a instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3a instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use. T3a instances deliver up to 10% cost savings over comparable instance types.

T3a instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T3a instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T3a instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Features:

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz
• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance
• Unlimited mode by default to ensure performance during peak periods and Standard mode option for a predictable monthly cost
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases:

Micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business-critical applications

Amazon EC2 T2 instances are Burstable Performance Instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline.

T2 Unlimited instances can sustain high CPU performance for as long as a workload needs it. For most general-purpose workloads, T2 Unlimited instances will provide ample performance without any additional charges. If the instance needs to run at higher CPU utilization for a prolonged period, it can also do so at a flat additional charge of 5 cents per vCPU-hour.

The baseline performance and ability to burst are governed by CPU Credits. T2 instances receive CPU Credits continuously at a set rate depending on the instance size, accumulating CPU Credits when they are idle, and consuming CPU credits when they are active. T2 instances are a good choice for a variety of general-purpose workloads including micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development, build and stage environments, code repositories, and product prototypes. For more information see Burstable Performance Instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Haswell E5-2676 v3 or Broadwell E5-2686 v4)
  
• High frequency Intel Xeon processors
• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance
• Low-cost general purpose instance type, and Free Tier eligible*
• Balance of compute, memory, and network resources

* t2.micro only. If configured as T2 Unlimited, charges may apply if average CPU utilization exceeds the baseline of the instance. See documentation for more details.

Use Cases

Websites and web applications, development environments, build servers, code repositories, micro services, test and staging environments, and line of business applications.  

Amazon EC2 C7g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processors. They are ideal for compute-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton3 processors
  
• Featuring the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4
  
• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to C6g instances
  
• EBS-optimized by default
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• With C7gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on c7g.16xlarge, c7g.metal, c7gd.16xlarge, and c7gd.metal instances
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use Cases

High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

Amazon EC2 C7gn instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3E processors. They offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 3x higher packet-processing performance per vCPU compared with comparable current generation x86-based network optimized instances.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton3E processors
  
• Featuring the latest Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• Up to 200 Gbps of networking bandwidth
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• 2x higher enhanced network bandwidth compared to C6gn instances
• EBS-optimized, by default
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on c7gn.16xlarge and c7gn.metal instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases
Network-intensive workloads, such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference

Amazon EC2 C7i instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 15% better price performance than C6i instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids 8488C)
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
• 2 metal sizes: c7i.metal-24xl and c7i.metal-48xl
• Discrete built-in accelerators (available on C7i bare metal sizes only)—Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—enable efficient offload and acceleration of data operations that help optimize performance for databases, encryption and compression, and queue management workloads
• Latest DDR5 memory, which offers more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Support for up to 128 EBS volume attachments per instance
  
• Up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 48xlarge size and metal-48xl size
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†
  

Use Cases

C7i instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 19% better price performance than C6i instances.

Features:

• Easiest way for you to achieve price performance and cost benefits in the cloud for a majority of your compute-intensive workloads
• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids 8488C)
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
• Latest DDR5 memory, which offers more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• EBS-optimized by default
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

C7i-flex instances are a great first choice to seamlessly run a majority of compute-intensive workloads, including web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.7 GHz 4th generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 9R14)
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking bandwidth
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  
• Instance sizes with up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD secure memory encryption (SME)
  
• Support for new processor capabilities such as AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16

Use cases

Compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
 

Amazon EC2 C6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over current generation C5 instances for compute-intensive applications.

Features:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth
• EBS-optimized by default
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• With C6gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance

Use Cases

High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over current generation C5n instances and provide up to 100 Gbps networking and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for applications that need higher networking throughput, such as high performance computing (HPC), network appliance, real-time video communication, and data analytics.

Features:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 100 Gbps of Network bandwidth
• EFA support on c6gn.16xlarge instances
• EBS-optimized by default, 2x EBS bandwidth compared to C5n instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

High performance web servers, scientific modelling, batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), network appliance, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
• Up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances
• Up to 9% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to C5 instances
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
• With C6id instances, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the C6i instance
  

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†
  

Use Cases

Compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU-based AI/ML. They are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. C6in instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 80 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. The C6in.32xlarge and C6in.metal instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that you can use to run applications that require high levels of internode communications, such as HPC applications using Message Passing Interface (MPI) libraries, at scale on AWS.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
• Support for Enhanced Networking with up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 2x compared to C5n instances
• Up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, up to 5.2x compared to C5n instances
• EFA support on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithm
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use Cases

Compute-intensive workloads that require high network bandwidth or high packet-processing performance such as distributed computing applications, network virtual appliances, data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU-based AI/ML.

Amazon C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are designed for compute-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13)
  
• Up to 15% better compute price performance over C5a instances
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• Up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory in the largest size
  
• SAP-Certified instances
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 48xlarge size
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD Transparent Single Key Memory Encryption (TSME)
  
• Support for new AMD Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-2) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
  

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors
  
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†
  

Use Cases

Compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C5 instances are optimized for compute-intensive workloads and deliver cost-effective high performance at a low price per compute ratio.

Features:

• C5 instances offer a choice of processors based on the size of the instance.
• C5 and C5d 12xlarge, 24xlarge, and metal instance sizes feature custom 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8275CL) with a sustained all core Turbo frequency of 3.6GHz and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.9GHz. 
• Other C5 instance sizes will launch on the 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8223CL) or 1st generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series (Skylake 8124M) processor with a sustained all core Turbo frequency of up to 3.4GHz, and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz.
• New larger 24xlarge instance size offering 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory, and optional 3.6TB local NVMe-based SSDs
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• With C5d instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the C5 instance
• Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5 instances with up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS.
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

High performance web servers, scientific modelling, batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C5n instances are ideal for high compute applications (including High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads, data lakes, and network appliances such as firewalls and routers) that can take advantage of improved network throughput and packet rate performance. C5n instances offers up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth and increased memory over comparable C5 instances. C5n.18xlarge instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications, like High Performance Computing (HPC) applications using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), at scale on AWS.

Features:

• 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum processors (Skylake 8124) with Intel Advanced Vector Extension 512 (AVX-512) instruction set
• Sustained all core Turbo frequency of up to 3.4GHz, and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz
  
• Larger instance size, c5n.18xlarge, offering 72 vCPUs and 192 GiB of memory
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• Network bandwidth increases to up to 100 Gbps, delivering increased performance for network intensive applications.
• EFA support on c5n.18xlarge instances
  
• 33% higher memory footprint compared to C5 instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

High performance web servers, scientific modelling, batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C5a instances offer leading x86 price-performance for a broad set of compute-intensive workloads.

Features:

• 2nd generation AMD EPYC 7002 series processors (AMD EPYC 7R32) running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz
• Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5a instances with up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 9.5 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• With C5ad instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the C5a instance
  

Use Cases

C5a instances are ideal for workloads requiring high vCPU and memory bandwidth such as batch processing, distributed analytics, data transformations, gaming, log analysis, web applications, and other compute-intensive workloads.

C4 instances are optimized for compute-intensive workloads and deliver very cost-effective high performance at a low price per compute ratio.

Features:

• Up to 2.9 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Haswell E5-2666 v3)
  
• High frequency Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell) processors optimized specifically for EC2
• Default EBS-optimized for increased storage performance at no additional cost
• Higher networking performance with Enhanced Networking supporting Intel 82599 VF
• Requires Amazon VPC, Amazon EBS and 64-bit HVM AMIs

Use Cases

High performance front-end fleets, web-servers, batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance science and engineering applications, ad serving, MMO gaming, and video-encoding.

Amazon EC2 R7g instances  are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton3 processors
• Features DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to R6g instances
• EBS-optimized by default
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• With R7gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on r7g.16xlarge, r7g.metal, r7gd.16xlarge, and r7gd.metal instances
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  

Use cases

Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 15% better price performance than R6i instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Sapphire Rapids 8488C)
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
• 2 metal sizes: r7i.metal-24xl and r7i.metal-48xl
• Discrete built-in accelerators (available on R7i bare metal sizes only)—Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—enable efficient offload and acceleration of data operations that help optimize performance for databases, encryption and compression, and queue management workloads
• Latest DDR5 memory, which offers more bandwidth compared to DDR4
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Support for up to 128 EBS volume attachments per instance
  
• Up to 192 vCPUs and 1,536GiB memory
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 48xlarge size and metal-48xl size
  
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.2 GHz 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
• EBS Optimized
• Enhanced Networking†
  

Use Cases

R7i instances are SAP-certified and ideal for all memory-intensive workloads (SQL and NoSQL databases), distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached and Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters).

Amazon EC2 R7iz instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and are an ideal fit for high CPU and memory-intensive workloads.

Features:

• 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids 6455B) with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.9 GHz
• Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances
• New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations – available in all sizes
• Discrete built-in accelerators (available on R7iz bare metal sizes only) - Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT) - enable efficient offload and acceleration of data operations that help in optimizing performance for databases, encryption and compression, and queue management workloads
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  
• Instance size with up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge size and the metal-32xl size
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

High-compute and memory-intensive workloads such as frontend Electronic Design Automation (EDA), relational database workloads with high per-core licensing fees, and financial, actuarial, and data analytics simulation workloads.

Amazon EC2 R7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to R6a instances.

Features:

• Up to 3.7 GHz 4th generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 9R14)
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking bandwidth
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
• Instance sizes with up to 192 vCPUs and 1,536 GiB of memory
• SAP-certified instances
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD secure memory encryption (SME)
• Support for new processor capabilities such as AVX3-512, VNNI, and bfloat16.

Use cases

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)

Amazon EC2 R6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over current generation R5 instances for memory-intensive applications.

Features:

• Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores
• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth
• EBS-optimized by default
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• With R6gd instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the instance
  

Use Cases

Memory-intensive applications such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics

Amazon R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) and are an ideal fit for memory-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
  
• Up to 15% better compute price performance over R5 instances
  
• Up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to R5 instances
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
  
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
• With R6id instances, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the R6i instance
  

Use Cases

Memory-intensive workloads such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches like Memcached and Redis, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time big data analytics like Hadoop and Spark clusters.

Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads that can take advantage of high networking bandwidth, such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, and in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA. R6in and R6idn instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 80 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth.

Features:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)
• Up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to R5n and R5dn instances
  
• Up to 200 Gbps of networking speed, which is up to 2x compared to R5n and R5dn instances
• Up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, which is up to 1.6x more than R5b instances
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on the 32xlarge and metal sizes
• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)
• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithms
• With R6idn instances, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the R6idn instance lifetime
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Use Cases

Memory-intensive workloads that can take advantage of high networking throughput, such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, and in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA.

Amazon EC2 R6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are an ideal fit for memory intensive workloads.

Features:

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13)
  
• Up to 35% better compute price performance over R5a instances
  
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed
  
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store
  
• Instance size with up to 192 vCPUs and 1,536 GiB of memory
  
• SAP-Certified instances
  
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 48xlarge and metal sizes
  
• Built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• Support for always-on memory encryption using AMD Transparent Single Key Memory Encryption (TSME)
  
• Support for new AMD Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-2) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms
  

Use Cases

Memory-intensive workloads, such as SAP, 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 Hadoop and Spark clusters; and other enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 R5 instances deliver 5% additional memory per vCPU than R4 and the largest size provides 768 GiB of memory. In addition, R5 instances deliver a 10% price per GiB improvement and a ~20% increased CPU performance over R4.

Features:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum 8000 series processors (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set
• Up to 768 GiB of memory per instance
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
  
• With R5d instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the R5 instance
  
• New 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes now available.
  

Use Cases

R5 instances are well suited for memory intensive applications such as high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 R5 instances are ideal for memory-bound workloads including high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-sized in-memory database, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications. The higher bandwidth, R5n and R5dn, instance variants are ideal for applications that can take advantage of improved network throughput and packet rate performance.

Features:

• 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8259CL) with a sustained all-core Turbo CPU frequency of 3.1 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz
• Support for the new Intel Vector Neural Network Instructions (AVX-512 VNNI) which will help speed up typical machine learning operations like convolution, and automatically improve inference performance over a wide range of deep learning workloads
• 25 Gbps of peak bandwidth on smaller instance sizes
• 100 Gbps of network bandwidth on the largest instance size
• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• With R5dn instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the R5 instance

Use Cases

High performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-sized in-memory database, real time big data analytics and other enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 R5b instances are EBS-optimized variants of memory-optimized R5 instances. R5b instances increase EBS performance by 3x compared to same-sized R5 instances. R5b instances deliver up to 60 Gbps bandwidth and 260K IOPS of EBS performance, the fastest block storage performance on EC2.

Features:

• Custom 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake 8259CL) with a sustained all-core Turbo CPU frequency of 3.1 GHz and maximum single core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz
• Up to 96 vCPUs, Up to 768 GiB of Memory
• Up to 25 Gbps network bandwidth
• Up to 60 Gbps of EBS bandwidth
  

Use Cases

High performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics.

Amazon EC2 R5a instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances ideal for memory-bound workloads and are powered by AMD EPYC 7000 series processors. R5a instances deliver up to 10% lower cost per GiB memory over comparable instances.

Features:

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz
  
• Up to 20 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking
• Up to 768 GiB of memory per instance
• Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• With R5ad instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the R5a instance