AMD and AWS Expand EC2 for Greater Performance and New Applications

Today, AMD announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances. These instances are powered by the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors and provide next-generation performance and efficiency for different types of applications.

"For customers with increasingly complex and compute-intensive workloads, 4th Gen EPYC processor-powered Amazon EC2 instances deliver a differentiated offering for customers," said David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. "Combined with the power of the AWS Nitro System, both M7a and Hpc7a instances allow for fast and low-latency internode communications, advancing what our customers can achieve across our growing family of Amazon EC2 instances."

"4th Gen EPYC processors have unmatched performance leadership; and our collaboration with AWS is delivering the full 4th Gen EPYC performance per core in new M7a and Hpc7a instances," said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. "As a result, our customers can do more with less across a wide range of workloads, while simultaneously optimizing their businesses."

Amazon EC2 M7a Instances

Amazon EC2 M7a instances provide up to 50 percent more compute performance than Amazon EC2 M6a instances. They offer new processor capabilities, such as AVX3-512, VNNI, and BFloat16, making them ideal for a wide range of workloads including financial applications, simulation modeling, gaming, and mid-sized data stores.

Amazon EC2 Hpc7a Instances

Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances are designed for tightly coupled high performance computing workloads. They deliver 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances and offer more compute, memory, and network performance. These instances are suitable for compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, weather forecasting, molecular dynamics, and computational chemistry. They also feature next-generation server technology like DDR5 memory, which provides 50 percent higher memory bandwidth compared to DDR4 memory.

"To deliver high-level operational intelligence for weather-dependent industries, DTN deploys a suite of weather data and models that deliver sophisticated, high-resolution outputs and require continual processing of vast amounts of data from inputs across the globe," said Lars Ewe, Chief Product and Technology Officer, DTN. "Our collaboration with AWS allows us to better serve our customers with the most up-to-date weather intelligence that feed those analytic engines. We are excited to see how the next generation of Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances can potentially support our mission to provide customers with the insights they need at the moment they are needed."

AMD has been working with AWS since 2018 and now provides more than 100 EPYC processor-based instances for various workloads. Customers such as DNT, Sprinklr, and TrueCar have all benefited from significant cost and cloud utilization optimization with AMD based Amazon EC2 instances. With these new instances, AWS customers can continue to take advantage of the excellent performance, scalability, and efficiency offered by AMD EPYC processors.