AWS Rebuilds Its Server CPU Around Agentic AI With the 192-Core Graviton5 Launch

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AWS has launched Graviton5 in new EC2 M9g and M9gd instances and is positioning the chip for agentic AI workloads. The company claims stronger performance, lower latency, and better bandwidth than Graviton4, but it has not yet published pricing. The launch centers on CPU-heavy orchestration, inference, and multi-step task execution rather than GPU training. Enterprises already using AWS infrastructure can evaluate whether these instances improve cost-performance for AI and database workloads once pricing and the full instance family arrive. The rollout also signals AWS’s continued push into custom Arm silicon across its cloud platform.

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