AWS Graviton Processors

Get the best price performance for cloud workloads running on Amazon EC2

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AWS Graviton is a family of processors designed to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Choose the AWS Graviton-based instance that best meets your needs.

EC2 Instances Powered by AWS Graviton Processors

  • General Purpose
  • M6g processor

    M7g, M7gd: Best price performance for general purpose workloads with balanced compute, memory, and networking

    Powered by: AWS Graviton3

    Built for: General purpose workloads such as application servers, midsize data stores, microservices, and cluster computing.

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    T4g processor

    T4g: Best price performance for burstable general purpose workloads

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: Broad range of burstable general purpose workloads such as large scale microservices, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications.

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  • Compute Optimized
  • C7g processor

    C7g, C7gd, C7gn: Best price performance for compute-intensive workloads

    Powered by: AWS Graviton3, AWS Graviton3E

    Built for: Compute-intensive applications such as high performance computing, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based machine learning inference acceleration. 

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    C6g processor

    C6g, C6gd, C6gn: Cost savings for compute and network-intensive workloads

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: Compute-intensive applications such as HPC, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based ML inference.

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  • Memory Optimized
  • Amazon EC2 R7g instances

    R7g, R7gd: High price performance for memory-intensive workloads

    Powered by:
    AWS Graviton3

    Built for: Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL), or in-memory caches (Redis, KeyDB, Memcached).

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    Amazon EC2 R8g instances

    R8g: Best price performance for memory-intensive workloads

    Powered by:
    AWS Graviton4

    Built for: Memory-intensive workloads such as high-performance databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

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    Amazon EC2 R7g instances

    R7g, R7gd: High price performance for memory-intensive workloads

    Powered by:
    AWS Graviton3

    Built for: Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL), or in-memory caches (Redis, KeyDB, Memcached).

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    X2gd processor

    X2gd: Lowest cost per GiB of memory in Amazon EC2

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL), in-memory caches (Redis, KeyDB, Memcached), electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time analytics, and real-time caching servers.

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  • Storage Optimized
  • Im4gn processor

    Im4gn: Best price performance for storage-intensive workloads

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: SQL databases (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MongoDB), search engines, analytics, streaming, and large distributed file systems.

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    Is4gn processor

    Is4gen: Lowest cost per TB of SSD storage in Amazon EC2

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: SQL databases (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MongoDB), search engines, analytics, streaming, and large distributed file systems.

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  • Accelerated Computing
  • G5g processor

    G5g: Best price performance for Android game streaming

    Powered by: AWS Graviton2

    Built for: Graphics applications including Android game streaming and ML inference.

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Local NVMe-based SSD storage options are also available in general-purpose (M6gd), compute-optimized (C6gd), and memory-optimized (R6gd) instances. Additionally, compute-optimized C6gn and C7gn instances with enhanced networking and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) are also available.

Instructure used Graviton3 to increase performance while keeping costs down (1:17)
Instructure used Graviton3 to increase performance while keeping costs down
Education technology company Instructure needed to increase its compute throughput while managing its scaling costs. After migrating to AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 instances, the company realized as much as 20% improvement in throughput and cost savings compared with older instances types.

Use cases

Run a broad set of cloud workloads

Use Graviton-based instances to support application servers, microservices, open-source databases, and high performance computing (HPC).

Optimize cost

AWS Graviton-based instances cost up to 20% less than comparable x86-based Amazon
EC2 instances.

Achieve sustainability goals

AWS Graviton-based instances use up to 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances.

Customers

  • Datadog
  • Datadog

    "We can keep costs constants but deliver more value. That efficiency then is translated back for our customers, delivering more features per compute cycles or serving more customers with an identical number of cores."

    Alexis Le-Quoc
    Co-Founder and Chief Technology Office, Datadog Inc.

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  • Discovery
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    "Graviton was used in our caching services for our front end subscriber and media asset management platforms to reach 175M viewers with 7x better performance compared to the non-Graviton instances we were using previously."

    Damien Frost
    SVP, Global Infrastructure Services, Discovery

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  • Instructure
  • "We use AWS Graviton3 instances in a number of places in our stack. They've provided us as much as 20% improvement in throughput and in cost savings versus older instances types."

    Zach Pendleton
    Chief Architect, Instructure

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  • Sprinklr
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    "On AWS Graviton-based instances, we can build more features that before were either expensive or not feasible.”  

    Nitin Goyal
    Vice President of Engineering, Sprinklr

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  • Zendesk
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    "We have a lot more confidence using AWS, and we want to adopt the latest technology as soon as it becomes available. This has been a great journey.” 

    Nan Guo
    Senior Vice President of Engineering, Zendesk

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  • Zomato
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    "AWS Graviton has helped us improve the price performance of our data platform by 25 percent. Moving to AWS Graviton-based instances was the fastest and easiest way to achieve our goals with little tweaks. The entire process, including testing, took us two weeks.”  

    Rajat Taya
    Senior Software Engineer, Zomato

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How to get started

Quickly migrate to AWS Graviton-based instances

See our step-by-step guide, workload guidance, and best practices.

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Build and run your applications on AWS Graviton-based instances

Use the AWS Graviton Technical Guide GitHub Repository to build applications on Graviton.

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Accelerate your migration with Porting Advisor for Graviton

Use Porting Advisor for Graviton to resolve source code and library dependencies.

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