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. These instances support AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16, which enable support for more workloads, use Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory to enable high-speed access to data in memory, and deliver 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to M6a instances.
One of the major differences between M7a instances and the previous generations of instances, such as M6a instances, is their vCPU to physical processor core mapping. Every vCPU on a M7a instance is a physical CPU core. This means there is no Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT). By contrast, every vCPU on prior generations such as M6a instances is a thread of a CPU core.
M7a 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.
Intro to Amazon EC2 instances powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors
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Benefits
Features
Product Details
Amazon EC2 M7a instances are powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and are an ideal fit for general-purpose workloads.
Instance Size | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Instance Storage (GB) | Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) |
m7a.medium | 1 | 4 | EBS-Only | Up to 12.5 | Up to 10 |
m7a.large | 2 | 8 | EBS-Only | Up to 12.5 | Up to 10 |
m7a.xlarge | 4 | 16 | EBS-Only | Up to 12.5 | Up to 10 |
m7a.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | EBS-Only | Up to 12.5 | Up to 10 |
m7a.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | EBS-Only | Up to 12.5 | Up to 10 |
m7a.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | EBS-Only | 12.5 | 10 |
m7a.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | EBS-Only | 18.75 | 15 |
m7a.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | EBS-Only | 25 | 20 |
m7a.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | EBS-Only | 37.5 | 30 |
m7a.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | EBS-Only | 50 | 40 |
m7a.48xlarge | 192 | 768 | EBS-Only | 50 | 40 |
m7a.metal-48xl | 192 | 768 | EBS-Only | 50 | 40 |
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 M7a instances.
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Netflix
Benchmarking our API proxy endpoints, the front door of the Netflix service stack, on Amazon EC2 M7a instances showed a 40% improvement in throughput, 50% reduction in latency, and 16% reduction in concurrent garbage collection (GC) pauses compared to existing instances.
Niall Mullen, Director Cloud Engineering, Netflix -
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.
Marc Mendis, AWS Solution Architect, ACCIONA