AWS and Intel
Jointly built hardware ensuring AWS services offer the best value to customers on optimized platforms for over a decade
What's New
Announced at AWS re:Invent 2020: Habana Gaudi-based Amazon EC2 instances. These new instances will deliver up to 40% better price performance than current GPU-based EC2 instances for training deep learning models. Learn more »

Intel® processors provide the foundation of many cloud computing services deployed on AWS. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors have the largest breadth, global reach, and availability of compute instances across AWS geographies.
Workloads
AWS and Intel work closely to develop technologies optimized for specific workloads and the needs of customers across a variety of applications.
-
Enterprise Applications
Benefits from the fastest pace of innovation, the broadest and deepest functionality, the most secure computing environment, and proven operational expertise.
Migrating SAP to AWS
Optimize your SAP environment by migrating to AWS. Running SAP applications on AWS enables your business to be more agile, cost-effective, and secure than running SAP on premises.
Migrate Windows workloads to AWS
For greater reliability, broader and deeper functionality, and stronger security, run your Windows and SQL Server workloads on AWS. AWS features 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and delivers 2x better price / performance advantage versus on-premises, resulting in savings of up to 90% on Windows compute costs.
Zappos Successfully Migrates to SAP HANA on AWS in Less Than 48 Hours (2:58)
Supercharge SAP: Why Customers are Deploying on SAP on AWS.
Cambridge University automated SAP workloads on AWS and achieved the first stage of automation.
innogy Czech Republic evolves and transforms its SAP footprint on AWS.
-
Compute at the Edge
AWS offers organizations a fast, secure path to the cloud while enabling customers to run applications on the same Intel® technology at the edge and in the cloud.
VMware Cloud on AWS powered by Intel
Amazon EC2 instances for VMware Cloud on AWS, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, deliver high networking throughput and lower latency.
AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts is a hybrid cloud solution that brings the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, management tools, support, and operating model that customers are familiar with, in AWS, to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility.
IoT – Day One (3:14)
Working together, AWS and Intel enable IoT solution development and deployment.
Enabling IoT insights and voice services for power and utility companies.
It is still Day One in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Securing Edge to Cloud IoT solutions with Intel and Amazon Web Services.
-
High Performance Computing
The latest EC2 instances that deliver an optimal mix of price/performance across compute and memory.
Driving growth and profits in financial services
HPC from AWS, powered by Intel, pays dividends for banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and more.
HPC with Intel and AWS
Together, AWS and Intel offer customers a broad and deep set of leading compute, networking, storage, cloud orchestration, and visualization technologies with a vibrant partner ecosystem.
HPC on AWS redefines "What is Possible"
HPC has been key to solving the most complex problems in every industry, and changing the way we work and live. From weather modeling to genome mapping to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Intel Technologies Give Fabric Genomics the Ability to Offer Fast Computational Speeds (3:45)
Five reasons to run your HPC applications in the cloud
Empowering researchers to innovate without constraints
Developing high-performance, scalable, cost-effective storage solutions with Intel Cloud Edition Lustre* and AWS.
AWS HPC powered by Intel ebooks
-
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Amazon EC2 instances, with Intel® performance optimizations, enable customers to create intelligent and innovative new products and experiences.
Enterprise AI Guide
AWS and Intel have been working together for over a decade to deliver the most comprehensive set of resources, tools, training, and services for your AI and machine learning services for your business.
Demystifying AI
AI and machine learning are helping businesses around the world improve decision-making, enhance customer engagement, and increase their bottom lines.
AWS DeepRacer TV (1:43)
How to get started with machine learning: expert advice from the front lines
How AI gets you from insight to action.
Instance Types
Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. Instance types comprise varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity and give you the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. Each instance type includes one or more instance sizes, allowing you to scale your resources to the requirements of your target workload.
-
General Purpose
-
Compute Optimized
-
Memory Optimized
-
Accelerated Computing
-
Storage Optimized
-
General Purpose
-
AWS Instance Type
M4 M5 M5n T2 (Burstable) T3 (Burstable) Intel® Processor Intel Xeon® E5-2686 Processors or Intel Xeon® E5-2676 Processors Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8175M Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Xeon® Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Process Technology Broadwell and Haswell Skylake Cascake Lake
Broadwell and Haswell Skylake Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2 AVX-512 AVX-512 AVX AVX-512 Intel® AWS New Instructions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Turbo Boost Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Deep Learning Boost - Yes - -
-
Compute Optimized
-
AWS Instance Type
C4 C5 C5n Intel® Processor Intel Xeon® E5-2666 Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8124M Processors Intel® Process Technology Haswell Cascade Lake Skylake Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2 AVX-512
AVX-512 Intel® AWS New Instructions Yes Yes Yes Intel® Turbo Boost Yes Yes Yes Intel® Deep Learning Boost -
Yes - -
Memory Optimized
-
AWS Instance Type High Memory R4
R5
R5n X1e / X1 Z1d Intel® Processor Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8176M or Scalable Processors Intel Xeon® E5-2686 Processors Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8175 Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 Processors Intel® Xeon®
Platinum 8151 ProcessorsIntel® Process Technology Skylake or Cascade Lake Broadwell Skylake Cascade Lake Haswell Skylake Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions AVX-512 AVX2 AVX-512 AVX-512 AVX2 AVX-512 Intel® AWS New Instructions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Turbo Boost Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Deep Learning Boost Yes (18 & 24 TiB) - - Yes - -
-
Accelerated Computing
-
AWS Instance Type
F1 G3 G4 P2
P3 Intel® Processor Intel® Xeon® E5-2686 v4 Processors Intel Xeon® E5-2686 Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel Xeon® E5-2686 Processors Intel® Xeon® E5-2686 v4 or P-8175M Processors Intel® Process Technology Broadwell Broadwell Cascake Lake Broadwell Broadwell or Skylake Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2 AVX2 AVX-512 AVX2 AVX2 or AVX-512 Intel® AWS New Instructions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Turbo Boost Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Deep Learning Boost - - Yes -
- -
Storage Optimized
-
AWS Instance Type
D2 H1
I3 I3en Intel® Processor Intel Xeon® E5-2676 Processors Intel Xeon® E5-2686 Processors Intel® Xeon® E5-2686 v4 Processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Process Technology Haswell Broadwell Broadwell Skylake Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2
AVX2 AVX2 AVX-512 Intel® AWS New Instructions Yes Yes Yes
Yes Intel® Turbo Boost Yes Yes Yes Yes Intel® Deep Learning Boost - -
- -
Case Studies
-
Enterprise Applications
-
Compute on the Edge
-
High Performance Compute
-
AI/ML
-
Enterprise Applications
-
FirstGroup drives better performance and business intelligence using SAP HANA on AWS.
ENGIE seeks to digitally transform and streamline financial processes using SAP S/4HANA on AWS.
Delivery Hero works with msg services ag to move SAP to AWS.
Visy boosts SAP app server performance by 46% using AWS.
Kellogg's SAP users are now more productive and can report results to the business faster.
Using AWS, msg global demonstrates its solutions seamlessly and whenever the need arises.
Lockheed Martin quickly moved its SAP on HANA Suite to the AWS Cloud.
Cloud Comrade delivers SAP HANA solution with AWS and Intel.
-
Compute on the Edge
-
Learn about how Salus is investing in using IoT and ML to set a new standard for the value it brings to customers.
-
High Performance Compute
-
Metabiota uses AWS to test thousands of simulations that are then scaled up to millions running on Rescale, to develop scalable solutions that drive infectious disease risk modeling.
proteanTecs supports tens of millions of simulations, cutting costs by up to 60% using AWS technologies.
Innovium speeds innovation by running chip-design workloads on AWS.
Quantitative Biology Center drives new genomics research faster using AWS.
-
AI/ML
-
Avis and Slalom digitize the car rental process with machine learning on AWS.
Footasylum and AWS Partner Peak deliver advanced personalization in marketing ommunications using AWS.
Thorn uses AWS to help law enforcement identify child-trafficking victims faster, utilizing AWS and Intel technologies.