Why AWS and AMD?
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 fifth generation AMD EPYC processors.
M8a instances are ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput such as gaming, financial applications, ML inferencing, video encoding, application servers, simulation modeling, mid-size data stores, application development environments, and caching fleets.
Workloads
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Open allAmazon EC2 M8a instances
M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances.
M8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to M7a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. M8a instances deliver even higher performance gains for specific workloads; M8a instances are up to 60% faster for GroovyJVM workloads and up to 39% faster for Cassandra databases compared to M7a. This means faster processing for your high- performance databases, transaction systems, and media encoding tasks. The SAP-certified M8a instances offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. This wide range of instance sizes allows customers to precisely match their workload requirements.
Amazon EC2 M7a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 C7a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 R7a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 M6a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 C6a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 R6a instances
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.
Amazon EC2 G4ad instances
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.
Amazon EC2 T3a instances
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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Capital One
"The 7th-generation of EC2 instances with AMD processors provided a step-function increase in performance for the cost. With a 43% performance gain demonstrated in our benchmarking, we see the upcoming M8a instances as a continuation of this essential trend for our cloud infrastructure."
Brent Segner, Senior Distinguished Engineer | Senior Director, Capital One
Acciona
ACCIONA offers sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs, and water shortages. We use Amazon EC2 M7a instances for computational heavy simulations of electricity grids and these instances allow us to simulate up to 64 different variables in a single simulation, vs. 16-30 variables before. Additionally, when we compared M7a instances to other instances, we saw a reduction in simulation time from 60-80 minutes to 18-22 minutes, which is on average, a 59% improvement in multi-threading performance. And with M7a instances, we were able to see 64 threads progressing at the same speed, which we had not experienced before. We are excited for M7a instances to help accelerate our innovation.
Dropbox
Dropbox is a leader in personal and enterprise online storage and is in a unique position to utilize AMD technology on-premise and in the cloud. We’re able to deliver on our promise to help customers work smarter, in part, through the technology partnerships we’ve established. AMD’s EPYC processors deliver the performance we need on our on-prem workloads, while Amazon EC2 instances powered by AMD processors offer us significant savings.
