Amazon EC2 Instance Types

Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the latest generation of General Purpose Instances powered by Intel Xeon® Platinum 8175M processors. This family provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications.

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set.

Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the latest generation of General Purpose Instances powered by Intel Xeon® Platinum 8175M processors. This family provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications.

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set.
• With M5d instances, local NVMe-based SSDs are physically connected to the host server and provide block-level storage that is coupled to the lifetime of the M5 instance. 75GB for every 2xvCPUs.

Amazon EC2 M6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are an ideal fit for general purpose workloads.

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13).

Amazon EC2 M6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price/performance over current generation M5 instances and offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad set of workloads.

Amazon EC2 M6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake). This family provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications.

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C).
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances are next-generation general purpose instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Sapphire Rapids) and feature a 4:1 ratio of memory to vCPU. EC2 instances powered by these custom processors, available only on AWS, offer the best performance among comparable Intel processors in the cloud – up to 15% better performance than Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are ideal for workloads such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. M8g instances offer up to 30% better performance and larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than the seventh-generation AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances.

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are the next generation burstable general-purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.

Amazon EC2 T4g instances are powered by Arm-based custom built AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances for a broad set of burstable general purpose workloads.

T4g instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T4g instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T4g instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Amazon EC2 R6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are an ideal fit for memory intensive workloads.

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13).

Amazon C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors and are designed for compute-intensive workloads.

• Up to 3.6 GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R13).

Amazon EC2 C6g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over current generation C5 instances for compute-intensive applications.

Amazon EC2 C7g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processors. They deliver the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive applications.

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to C6g instances.
• EBS-optimized by default.

Amazon EC2 C7i instances are powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver 15% better price performance than C6i instances.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads. M7g instances are ideal for applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets. They offer up to 25% better performance over the sixth-generation AWS Graviton2-based M6g instances. M7g instances feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory, which provides 50% higher memory bandwidth compared to DDR4 memory to enable high-speed access to data in memory.