2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Now Delivering More Computing Power to Amazon Web Services Customers
June 04 2020 - 5:16PM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor
powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a instances are now
generally available in the AWS U.S. East, AWS U.S. West, AWS Europe
and AWS Asia Pacific regions.
Powered by a 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor running at
frequencies up to 3.3Ghzi, the Amazon EC2 C5a instances are the
sixth instance family at AWS powered by AMD EPYC processors. By
using the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor, the C5a instance delivers
leadership x86 price-performance for a broad set of
compute-intensive workloads including batch processing, distributed
analytics, data transformations, log analytics and web
applications.
Available in eight configurations, with up to 96
virtual CPUs, the Amazon EC2 C5a instances take advantage of high
core counts from the AMD EPYC processor to offer the lowest cost
per x86 virtual CPU in the Amazon EC2 portfolio. This provides
customers with an additional choice for optimal performance and
cost across a variety of compute intensive workloads, including
video game development and hosting which take advantage of the high
CPU core counts and memory ratios provided by C5a.
“The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors deliver the levels
of performance required for our customers to confidently bring
compute-focused workloads to the cloud,” said Forrest Norrod,
senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded
Solutions Group, AMD. “With the new Amazon EC2 C5a instances, we
are strategically expanding our presence and capabilities with AWS.
Even more importantly, together we are helping to continuously
improve the end user cloud experience.”
“Together, AMD and AWS offer customers great
flexibility and choice of compute options to help them optimize
both performance and cost for a wide range of workloads,” said
David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
“Since launching Amazon EC2 R5a, M5a, and T3a instances powered by
1st gen AMD EPYC processors, we’ve seen customers move many general
purpose and memory optimized workloads to take advantage of the AMD
EPYC processor capabilities and 10% lower prices over comparable
instances. With the availability of Amazon EC2 C5a instances based
on the 2nd gen AMD EPYC processors, customers now have a new option
that enables better performance and cost for a variety of compute
intensive workloads, as well.”
AMD and AWS have provided customers with high
performance, cost effective options since early 2018 with five
Amazon EC2 instance families (M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad and T3a)
spanning more than 15 global AWS Regions. The new Amazon EC2 C5a
instances with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors are available now in
the AWS U.S. East, AWS U.S. West, AWS Europe, and AWS Asia Pacific
regions. Disk variants, Amazon EC2 C5ad, that come with local NVMe
instance storage and bare metal variants, Amazon EC2 C5an.metal and
Amazon EC2 C5adn.metal, are coming soon.
The AWS compute optimized EC2 instances are a
direct result of the ongoing collaboration between AWS and AMD.
Read more about the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor and AWS’s EC2
Instance general availability here.
Supporting Resources
- Read more about C5a in the AWS blog here
- Learn more about the AMD 2nd Gen EPYCTM Processor
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