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At AMD's Next Horizon event, Amazon's Matt Garman announced the availability of new AWS EC2 instances running on AMD's EPYC processors. The AMD versions of the general purpose M5 and T3 and memory optimized R5 instances are 10% cheaper than the Intel equivalents. Oracle beat Amazon to the punch just last month, and they noted that EPYC processor offer some interesting advantages over other types of cloud instances.
"One thing our customers agree on is that they all like lower prices," said Matt Garman, Vice President of Compute Services, AWS. "Apart from adding to what is already the broadest and most capable set of compute services available in the cloud, these new AMD-based instances give customers an even lower priced way to run many of the most common applications." AMD-based R5 and M5 instances can be launched via the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface and are available today in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions, with availability in additional regions planned soon. AMD-based T3 instances will be available in the coming weeks. AMD-based M5 and R5 instances are available in six sizes with up to 96 vCPUs and up to 768 GB of memory. AMD-based T3 instances will be available in 7 sizes with up to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB of memory. The new instances can be purchased as On-Demand, Reserved, or Spot instances.
"One thing our customers agree on is that they all like lower prices," said Matt Garman, Vice President of Compute Services, AWS. "Apart from adding to what is already the broadest and most capable set of compute services available in the cloud, these new AMD-based instances give customers an even lower priced way to run many of the most common applications." AMD-based R5 and M5 instances can be launched via the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface and are available today in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions, with availability in additional regions planned soon. AMD-based T3 instances will be available in the coming weeks. AMD-based M5 and R5 instances are available in six sizes with up to 96 vCPUs and up to 768 GB of memory. AMD-based T3 instances will be available in 7 sizes with up to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB of memory. The new instances can be purchased as On-Demand, Reserved, or Spot instances.
