AMD Showcases Leadership Cloud Performance with New Amazon EC2 Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

—Amazon EC2 M7a instances offer up to 50 percent more compute performance than M6a instances and bring an even broader range of workloads to AWS—

—Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances—

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that benefit from high performance, high throughput and tightly coupled HPC workloads, respectively.

“For customers with increasingly complex and compute-intensive workloads, 4^th 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.”

“4^th Gen EPYC processors have unmatched performance leadership; and our collaboration with AWS is delivering the full 4^th 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.”

AMD and AWS Expand EC2 for Greater Performance and New Applications
Amazon EC2 M7a instances, first previewed at this year’s AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere, cater to a wide range of workloads, providing customers with up to 50 percent more compute performance than Amazon EC2 M6a instances, while offering new processor capabilities, such as AVX3-512, VNNI, and BFloat16. In addition to high performance in general purpose workloads, the Amazon EC2 M7a instances are ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput such as financial applications, simulation modeling, gaming, mid-sized data stores and more.