AMD reimagines Cloud performance with 4th gen AMD EPYC processors with AWS
Summary
“AWS has worked with AMD since 2018 to offer Amazon EC2 instances to customers. “When we combine the performance of 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with the AWS Nitro System, we’re advancing cloud technology for our customers by allowing them to do more with better performance on even more Amazon EC2 instances.” “AMD and AWS are reimagining what’s possible with Cloud performance, driving a differentiated offering for customers with the next generation of Amazon EC2 instances,” said Dan McNamara, Senior Vice President, General Manager, EPYC Business, AMD. “We continue to showcase the immense capabilities of the world’s best data centre CPU, the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, and our ongoing collaboration with AWS highlights the momentum and demand for EPYC to power faster applications enabling customers to bring a broader range of workloads to the Cloud.” Next generation of AMD and AWS instances The new Amazon EC2 M7a instances, using 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available in preview. AMD began working with AWS in 2018 and now provides more than 100 EPYC processor-based instances for general purpose, compute optimised, memory optimised and high performance computing workloads. Customers such as DNT, Sprinklr, and TrueCar have all benefitted from significant cost and cloud utilisation optimisation with AMD based Amazon EC2 instances.