AMD EPYC on AWS: 5th Gen Processors Power New High-Performance Cloud Instances

AMD EPYC CPU-powered Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available today

M8a instances deliver up to 30% higher performance than the previous generation 

AWS has collaborated with AMD as the first major cloud provider to launch instances powered by AMD EPYC™ CPUs. Since 2018, AWS has launched all generations of EPYC CPUs spanning general purpose, memory-optimized, compute-optimized, burstable, and HPC instance families.

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of the latest Amazon EC2 general-purpose instance, M8a, powered by 5^th Gen AMD EPYC processors. 

AMD EPYC CPU-powered M8a is a strong fit for general-purpose applications that need balanced compute, memory, and networking. It is ideal for web and application hosting, microservices architectures, and databases where predictable performance and efficient scaling are important.

“AWS has trusted AMD EPYC processors for every generation of their cloud instances,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business, AMD. “With 5th Gen EPYC, we’re continuing to increase the performance, efficiency, and scalability customers need to power everything from modern applications to the most demanding workloads—helping them innovate faster in the cloud.”

“The new EC2 M8a instances represent yet another milestone in our long-standing collaboration with AMD,” said Nishant Mehta, Vice President of EC2 Product Management at AWS. “These instances offer significant performance improvements over the previous generation instances and will provide customers with the scale and flexibility to run an even broader range of compute workloads.”

With up to 30% higher performance over the previous generation, customers gain the advantage of faster memory bandwidth, greater networking and storage throughput, and flexible configuration options to power an even wider range of general-purpose workloads.

"5^th Gen EPYC delivered best in class performance and became a core part of Netflix Infrastructure enabling rapid scalability for Live events,” said Niall Mullen, Senior Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Netflix. “AMD EPYC-powered EC2 M8a furthers that performance, delivering new features like AVX-512 to scale our encoding, personalization, and machine learning workloads across the globe.”

The AMD EPYC CPU-powered Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available today.