Why Amazon EC2 M6g Instances?
Amazon EC2 M6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over M5 instances, and offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad set of workloads. They are for applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets. Developers can also use these instances to build Arm-based applications natively in the cloud, eliminating the need for cross-compilation and emulation, and improving time to market.
M6g instances are also available with local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage option (M6gd) for applications that need high-speed, low latency local storage.
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Benefits
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Product Details
Instance Size | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Instance Storage (GB) | Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | EBS Bandwidth (Mbps) |
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m6g.medium | 1 | 4 | EBS-Only | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6g.large | 2 | 8 | EBS-Only | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6g.xlarge | 4 | 16 | EBS-Only | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6g.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | EBS-Only | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6g.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | EBS-Only | Up to 10 | 4,750 |
m6g.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | EBS-Only | 12 | 9,000 |
m6g.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | EBS-Only | 20 | 13,500 |
m6g.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | EBS-Only | 25 | 19,000 |
m6g.metal | 64 | 256 | EBS-Only | 25 | 19,000 |
m6gd.medium | 1 | 4 | 1 x 59 NVMe SSD | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6gd.large | 2 | 8 | 1 x 118 NVMe SSD | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6gd.xlarge | 4 | 16 | 1 x 237 NVMe SSD | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6gd.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 1 x 474 NVMe SSD | Up to 10 | Up to 4,750 |
m6gd.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | 1 x 950 NVMe SSD | Up to 10 | 4,750 |
m6gd.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 1 x 1900 NVMe SSD | 12 | 9,000 |
m6gd.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 2 x 1425 NVMe SSD | 20 | 13,500 |
m6gd.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 2 x 1900 NVMe SSD | 25 | 19,000 |
m6gd.metal | 64 | 256 | 2 x 1900 NVMe SSD | 25 | 19,000 |
All instances have the following specs:
- Custom built AWS Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm cores
- EBS Optimized
- Enhanced Networking
Customer Testimonials
Here are some examples of how customers and partners have achieved their business agility, price performance, cost savings, and sustainability goals with Amazon EC2 M6g instances.
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Honeycomb.io
Honeycomb.io provides an observability tool for introspecting and interrogating production systems, designed and evolved to meet the needs of platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and complex systems. Honeycomb.io is running Amazon EC2 M6g instances for their ingest worker test fleet. The entire transition process took about 15 hours by an experienced generalist systems engineer/SRE. Comparing to existing C5 instances, Honeycomb.io observed M6g instances to be superior in every aspect—they cost less, have more RAM, exhibit lower median and significantly narrower tail latency, and run cooler with the same proportional workload per host. Converting the entire ingest worker fleet to M6g instances has allowed Honeycomb.io to run 30% fewer instances, and each instance costs 10% less.
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Hotelbeds
Hotelbeds is the world's leading bedbank, redefining accommodation, transfers, activities and car rental products with a global network of travel distributors. Hotelbeds is constantly exploring new technologies to ensure they offer the best products and services to their customers. Hotelbeds were excited to test out the new AWS Graviton2 processors for one of the workloads developed using Java11 + SpringBoot2. Hotelbeds' initial testing shows that the Amazon EC2 M6g instances based on AWS Graviton2 deliver up to 43% better price performance vs. the current generation M5 instances. Based on these results Hotelbeds looks forward to using M6g instances as part of its Amazon EC2 infrastructure.
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LexisNexis
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a global data and analytics company that provides data and technology services, analytics, predictive insights, and fraud prevention for a wide range of industries.
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Mobiuspace
Mobiuspace is a startup that provides an advanced AI-based content discovery and entertainment platform. Mobiuspace recently tested its Java-based containerized backend services on the new AWS Graviton2 based Amazon EC2 M6g instances and observed a performance improvement of 40% compared to the M5 instances. Due to this performance improvement and the 20% lower price of Amazon EC2 M6g instances, Mobiuspace is looking forward to adopting them.
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Netflix
Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with 158 million memberships in 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries, and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. “We use Amazon EC2 M instance types for a number of workloads inclusive of our streaming, encoding, data processing, and monitoring applications,” said Ed Hunter, Director of Performance and operating systems at Netflix. “We tested the new M6g instances using industry standard LMbench and certain Java benchmarks and saw up to 50% improvement over M5 instances. We’re excited about the introduction of AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 instances.”
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Nielsen
Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. “Our OpenJDK based Java application is used to collect digital data, process incoming web requests, and redirect requests based on business needs. The application is I/O intensive and scaling out in a cost-effective manner is a key requirement,” said Chris Nicotra, SVP Digital, at Nielsen. “We seamlessly transferred this Java application to Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. We’ve since tested the new Graviton2-based M6g instances and it was able to handle twice the load of an A1. We look forward to running more workloads on the new Graviton2-based instances.”
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Raygun
Raygun provides visibility into how users are really experiencing software thereby enabling its customers to detect, diagnose and resolve issues with greater speed and accuracy. For Raygun's compute centric .NET Core based workloads that were tested on the new Graviton2 based M6g instances, Raygun is excited to see a 30% performance gain over the existing 5th generation instances are currently used in production today. In this challenging climate Raygun's focus is to look for cost efficiencies, so Raygun is very excited about being able to utilize these instances in production now they are generally available.
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Redbox
Redbox is America’s leading source for affordable new release movie rentals and TV shows, without a subscription. Redbox operates more than 41,500 conveniently located, self-service entertainment kiosks and run nightly inventory forecasts to ensure customers get the movies they want, when they want them. The forecasting algorithm is mostly compute bound and runs on C5 instances today. When Redbox saw the AWS Graviton2 announcement they were keen to test the new Amazon EC2 M6g instances to see how they perform for this use case. Comparing m5.2xlarge vs m6g.2xlarge Redbox found the performance was almost identical but the M6g is 20% lower cost. Redbox is impressed that Graviton2 is trading blows with x86 in the server space.
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Arm Treasure Data
Arm Treasure Data Customer Data Platform (CDP) enables the unification of data from different sources and reduces the need for data cleaning and preparation. This big data heavy workload runs on AWS, supported by open-source middleware such as Presto. Based on internal tests, the Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors provide 30% better performance and 20% better cost benefits compared to M5 instances.
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Valnet
Valnet Inc. is a digital media company that specializes in content distribution.