AMD Corporation (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that an Amazon EC2 C5a instance with a second-generation AMD EPYC processor is now available from AWS. Widely available in the Eastern United States, AWS U.S. West, AWS Europe, and AWS Asia Pacific.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) adds second-generation AMD EPYC processor support and provides high-performance processing services for customers’ compute-intensive workloads.
Amazon has made its C5a AWS cloud instances available
The Amazon EC2 C5a instance is powered by a second-generation AMD EPYC up to 3.3 GHz. processor support and is the sixth instance family with AMD EPYC processors on AWS. With second-generation AMD EPYC processors, the C5a instances deliver peak performance for a wide range of compute-intensive workloads. x86 price/performance, including batch processing, distributed analysis, data conversion, protocol analysis, and web applications.
Available in eight configurations with up to 96 virtual CPUs, the EC2 C5a instance takes advantage of AMD EPYC processors. The advantage of high core counts results in the lowest cost per x86 virtual CPU in the Amazon EC2 portfolio. This gives customers more options to achieve optimal performance and cost across a variety of compute-intensive workloads, including video game development. and hosting to take advantage of C5a’s high CPU core counts and memory rates.
Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Data Center and Embedded Solutions business unit, said. The second generation of AMD EPYC processors provides our customers with the level of performance they need to take their computing to the next level. Centralized workloads are moving to the cloud with confidence. With the new Amazon EC2 C5a instance, we have strategically expanded the business and functionality associated with it. More importantly, together we will help end-users continually improve their cloud experience.
David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS, said, “AMD and AWS together provide customers with tremendous flexibility and computing options that help them optimize performance and cost across multiple workloads. Amazon EC2 R5a, M5a, and T3a instances supported since the first generation of AMD EPYC processors Since the release, we have seen customers move many common and memory-optimized workloads to these instances to take advantage of the capabilities of AMD EPYC processors and the price advantages they bring. With the Amazon EC2 C5a, instances are now available that are supported by the second generation of AMD EPYC processors. Customers now have a whole new choice for better performance and price for a wide range of compute-intensive workloads”.
Since early 2018, AMD and AWS have five Amazon EC2 families of instances (M5a. M5ad, R5a, R5ad, and T3a), available in more than 15 AWS regions worldwide, providing customers with an excellent choice for high performance and value. Today, the new Amazon EC2 C5a instance with second-generation AMD EPYC processors is available at AWS U.S. East, AWS U.S. West, AWS Europe, and AWS Asia Pacific. Panel variants Amazon EC2 C5ad and bare metal variants with local NVMe instance memory The Amazon EC2 C5an.metal and Amazon EC2 C5adn.
AWS’s computer-optimized EC2 instances are a direct result of AWS’s ongoing collaboration with AMD. Click here to learn more about AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors and fully available AWS EC2 instances.