Amazon Graviton Processor
Enabling a price performance choice in Amazon EC2
Amazon Graviton processors are designed by Amazon Web Services to deliver a price performance choice for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2.
Amazon Graviton2 processors deliver a major leap in performance and capabilities over first-generation Amazon Graviton processors. Graviton2-based instances provide significant performance gains and cost savings for workloads in Amazon EC2. Graviton2-based instances support a wide range of general purpose, burstable, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, and accelerated computing workloads including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, video encoding, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches. Many Amazon Web Services services, including Amazon Aurora、Amazon RDS、Amazon MemoryDB、Amazon ElastiCache、Amazon OpenSearch、Amazon EMR、Amazon Codebuild、Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Neptune also support Graviton2-based instances for a fully managed experience with significant price performance benefits.
Amazon Graviton3 processors are the latest in the Amazon Graviton processor family. They provide up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, and up to 2x faster cryptographic workload performance compared to Amazon Graviton2 processors. Amazon Graviton3 processors deliver up to 3x better performance compared to Amazon Graviton2 processors for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16. They also support DDR5 memory that provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4. This improvement provides higher performance benefits for HPC applications.
Benefits
A price performance choice for a broad range of workloads
Amazon Graviton2-based T4g, M6g, C6g and R6g EC2 instances and their variants with NVMe-based SSD storage deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads such as application servers, microservices, video encoding, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, compression, gaming, open-source databases, in-memory caches, and CPU-based machine learning inference.
Extensive software support
Amazon Graviton processors are supported by many Linux operating systems including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Many popular applications and services for security, monitoring and management, containers, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) from Amazon Web Services and software partners also support Amazon Graviton-based instances.
Enhanced security for cloud applications
Amazon Graviton processors feature key capabilities that enable you to run cloud native applications securely, and at scale. Amazon Graviton3 processors feature always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. EC2 instances powered by Amazon Graviton processors are built on the Amazon Nitro System that features the Amazon Nitro security chip with dedicated hardware and software for security functions, and support for encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.
Available with managed Amazon Web Services services
Amazon Graviton-based instances are also available in popular managed Amazon Web Services such as Amazon Aurora、Amazon RDS、Amazon MemoryDB、Amazon ElastiCache、Amazon OpenSearch、Amazon EMR、Amazon Codebuild、Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Neptune. These services deliver the price performance benefits of Amazon Graviton processors while providing a fully managed experience.
EC2 Instances Powered By Amazon Graviton Processors
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General Purpose
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Compute Optimized
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Memory Optimized
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General Purpose
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M7g：A price performance choice for general purpose workloads in Amazon EC2
Powered by：Amazon Graviton3
Built for：Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge and m7g.metal
M6g：A price performance choice for general purpose workloads with balanced compute, memory, and networking
Powered by：Amazon Graviton2
Built for：General-purpose workloads such as application servers, mid-size data stores, microservices, and cluster computing.
T4g：A price performance choice for burstable general purpose workloads
Powered by：Amazon Graviton2
Built for：Broad range of burstable general purpose workloads such as large scale microservices, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications.
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Compute Optimized
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C7g：A price performance choice for compute-intensive workloads in Amazon EC2
Powered by：Amazon Graviton3
Built for : Compute-intensive applications such as high performance computing, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based machine learning inference acceleration. Compute optimized C7g instances with up to 30 Gbps networking and support for Elastic Fabric adapter (EFA).
C6g：Cost savings for compute and network-intensive workloads
Powered by：Amazon Graviton2
Built for : Compute-intensive applications such as HPC, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based ML inference.
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Memory Optimized
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R7g：A price performance choice for memory-intensive workloads in Amazon EC2
Powered by：Amazon Graviton3
Built for : Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on r7g.16xlarge and r7g.metal instances.
R6g：A price performance choice for memory-intensive workloads
Powered by：Amazon Graviton2
Built for : Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases (MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL), or in-memory caches (Redis, KeyDB, Memcached).
Amazon Web Services Supporting Graviton
Getting Started with Graviton-based instances
Using Amazon EC2
With pre-built Linux-based Arm64 Amazon Machine Image (AMIs), you can quickly launch Amazon Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances within minutes. To learn more, visit the launch your instance page.
