Amazon EC2 Instance-Types

General purpose instances provide a balance of compute, memory and networking resources, and can be used for a variety of diverse workloads. These instances are ideal for applications that use these resources in equal proportions such as web servers and code repositories. 

Amazon EC2 M8g instances are powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors. They deliver the high price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processors
• Larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than M7g instances
• Features the latest DDR5-5600 memory
• Optimized for Amazon EBS by default
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m8g.24xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl
• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

Custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processor

Optimized for Amazon

EBSEnhanced networking†

Use cases

Applications built on open source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

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Amazon EC2 M7g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton3 processors. They deliver the better price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose applications.

They deliver up to 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances.

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge and m7g.metal

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores
  

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton3 processors. They deliver the better price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose applications.

They deliver up to 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances.

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge and m7g.metal

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores
  

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton3 processors. They deliver the better price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose applications.

They deliver up to 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances.

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge and m7g.metal

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores
  

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

Amazon EC2 M7g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton3 processors. They deliver the better price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose applications.

They deliver up to 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances.

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to M6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on m7g.16xlarge and m7g.metal

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores
  

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

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.

Features

• 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.

• Up to 25 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking.

• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server.

• 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.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 M5a instances are the latest generation of General Purpose Instances powered by AMD EPYC 7000 series processors. 

M5a instances deliver up to 10% cost savings over comparable instance types. With M5ad 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 instance.

Features

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz.

• Up to 20 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking.

• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 M4 instances provide a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and it is a good choice for many applications.

Features

• Up to 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Broadwell E5-2686 v4 or Haswell E5-2676 v3)

• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth.

• EBS-optimized by default.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server.

• With M6gd 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 instance.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Broadwell E5-2686 v4 or Haswell E5-2676 v3)

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Small and mid-size databases, data processing tasks that require additional memory, caching fleets, and for running backend servers for SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, cluster computing, and other enterprise applications.

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.

T3 instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T3 instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T3 instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Features

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL).

• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance.

• Unlimited mode by default to ensure performance during peak periods and Standard mode option for a predictable monthly cost.

• Powered by the Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Nitro System and high frequency Intel Xeon Scalable processors result in up to a 30% price performance improvement over T2 instances.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business-critical applications.

Amazon EC2 T3a 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. T3a 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. T3a instances deliver up to 10% cost savings over comparable instance types.

T3a instances accumulate CPU credits when a workload is operating below baseline threshold. Each earned CPU credit provides the T3a instance the opportunity to burst with the performance of a full CPU core for one minute when needed. T3a instances can burst at any time for as long as required in Unlimited mode.

Features

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz.

• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance.

• Unlimited mode by default to ensure performance during peak periods and Standard mode option for a predictable monthly cost.

• Powered by the Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development environments, code repositories, and business-critical applications.

Amazon EC2 T2 instances are Burstable Performance Instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline.

T2 Unlimited instances can sustain high CPU performance for as long as a workload needs it. For most general-purpose workloads, T2 Unlimited instances will provide ample performance without any additional charges. If the instance needs to run at higher CPU utilization for a prolonged period, it can also do so at a flat additional charge of 5 cents per vCPU-hour.

The baseline performance and ability to burst are governed by CPU Credits. T2 instances receive CPU Credits continuously at a set rate depending on the instance size, accumulating CPU Credits when they are idle, and consuming CPU credits when they are active. T2 instances are a good choice for a variety of general-purpose workloads including micro-services, low-latency interactive applications, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, development, build and stage environments, code repositories, and product prototypes.

Features

• Up to 3.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Haswell E5-2676 v3 or Broadwell E5-2686 v4).

• High frequency Intel Xeon processors.

• Burstable CPU, governed by CPU Credits, and consistent baseline performance.

• Low-cost general purpose instance type, and Free Tier eligible*.

• Balance of compute, memory, and network resources.

• * t2.micro only. If configured as T2 Unlimited, charges may apply if average CPU utilization exceeds the baseline of the instance. See documentation for more details.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Intel AVX†, Intel Turbo†.

• t2.nano, t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium have up to 3.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable processor.

• t2.large, t2.xlarge, and t2.2xlarge have up to 3.0 GHz Intel Scalable Processor.

Use Cases

Websites and web applications, development environments, build servers, code repositories, micro services, test and staging environments, and line of business applications.  

Each vCPU is a thread of either an Intel Xeon core or an AMD EPYC core, except for M6g instances, A1 instances, T2 instances, and m3.medium.

Each vCPU on T4g and M6g instances is a core of the Amazon Graviton2 processor.

Each vCPU on A1 instances is a core of an Amazon Graviton Processor.

† AVX, AVX2, and Enhanced Networking are only available on instances launched with HVM AMIs.

* This is the default and maximum number of vCPUs available for this instance type.

You can specify a custom number of vCPUs when launching this instance type. For more details on valid vCPU counts and how to start using this feature, visit the Optimize CPUs documentation page here.

* m5.metal and m5d.metal provide 96 logical processors on 48 physical cores; they run on single servers with two physical Intel sockets

** These M4 instances may launch on an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) processor.

*** Instances marked with "Up to" Network Bandwidth have a baseline bandwidth and can use a network I/O credit mechanism to burst beyond their baseline bandwidth on a best effort basis. For more information, see instance network bandwidth.

Compute Optimized instances are ideal for compute bound applications that benefit from high performance processors. Instances belonging to this family are well suited for batch processing workloads, media transcoding, high performance web servers, high performance computing (HPC), scientific modeling, dedicated gaming servers and ad server engines, machine learning inference and other compute intensive applications.

Amazon EC2 C8g instances are powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors. They deliver the high price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processors
• Larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than C7g instances
• Features the latest DDR5-5600 memory
• Optimized for Amazon EBS by default
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on c8g.24xlarge, c8g.48xlarge, c8g.metal-24xl, c8g.metal-48xl
• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

Custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processor

Optimized for Amazon

EBSEnhanced networking†

Use cases

High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based ML inference.

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

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Featuring the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to C6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on c7g.16xlarge and c7g.metal instances

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

Amazon EC2 C6i instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver up to 15% better price performance than C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads. These instances feature twice the networking bandwidth of C5 instances and are an ideal fit for compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• Up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances

• Up to 9% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to C5 instances

• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed

• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store

• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge and metal sizes

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU-based AI/ML. They are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. C6in instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 80 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. The C6in.32xlarge and C6in.metal instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that you can use to run applications that require high levels of internode communications, such as HPC applications using Message Passing Interface (MPI) libraries, at scale on Amazon Web Services.

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• Support for Enhanced Networking with up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 2x compared to C5n instances

• Up to 80 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, up to 4.2x compared to C5n instances

• EFA support on the 32xlarge and metal sizes

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX-512) instructions for faster processing of cryptographic algorithm

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

**** For 32xlarge and metal sizes, at least 2 elastic network interfaces, with each attached to a different network card, are required on the instance to achieve 200 Gbps throughput. Each network interface attached to a network card can achieve a maximum of 170 Gbps.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

Compute-intensive workloads that require high network bandwidth or high packet-processing performance such as distributed computing applications, network virtual appliances, data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), and CPU-based AI/ML.

Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton2 processors. They provide up to 100 Gbps networking and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for applications that need higher networking throughput, such as high performance computing (HPC), network appliance, real-time video communication, and data analytics.

Features

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores

• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 100 Gbps of Network bandwidth

• EFA support on c6gn.16xlarge instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm cores

• EBS Optimized

• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

High performance web servers, scientific modelling, batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), network appliance, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

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

Features

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.

• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth.

• EBS-optimized by default.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• With C6gd 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 instance.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm cores.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference.

Amazon EC2 C5 instances are optimized for compute-intensive workloads and deliver cost-effective high performance at a low price per compute ratio.

Features

• C5 instances offer a choice of processors based on the size of the instance.

• Requires HVM AMIs that include drivers for ENA and NVMe.

• With C5d 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 C5 instance.

• Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5 instances with up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

Specification

C5 and C5d 12xlarge, 24xlarge, and metal instances have the following specs:

• Custom 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core Turbo frequency of 3.6GHz and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.9GHz.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512, Intel Turbo, Intel DL Boost.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

All other C5 and C5d instances have the following specs:

• Custom 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core Turbo frequency of 3.6GHz and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.9GHz or 1st generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series (Skylake-SP) processor with a sustained all core Turbo frequency of up to 3.4GHz, and single core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

High performance web servers, scientific modelling, batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon EC2 C5a instances offer leading x86 price-performance for a broad set of compute-intensive workloads.

Features

• 2nd generation AMD EPYC 7002 series processors (AMD EPYC 7R32) running at frequencies up to 3.3 GHz.

• Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) provides C5a instances with up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 9.5 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• With C5ad 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 C5a instance.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.3 GHz 2nd generation AMD EPYC Processor.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

C5a instances are ideal for workloads requiring high vCPU and memory bandwidth such as batch processing, distributed analytics, data transformations, gaming, log analysis, web applications, and other compute-intensive workloads.

C4 instances are optimized for compute-intensive workloads and deliver very cost-effective high performance at a low price per compute ratio.

Features

• Up to 2.9 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Haswell E5-2666 v3).

• High frequency Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell) processors optimized specifically for EC2.

• Default EBS-optimized for increased storage performance at no additional cost.

• Higher networking performance with Enhanced Networking supporting Intel 82599 VF.

• Requires Amazon VPC, Amazon EBS and 64-bit HVM AMIs.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 2.9 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

High performance front-end fleets, web-servers, batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance science and engineering applications, ad serving, MMO gaming, and video-encoding.

Each vCPU on C6g and C6gn instances is a core of the Amazon Graviton2 processor.

† AVX, AVX2, and Enhanced Networking are only available on instances launched with HVM AMIs.

* This is the default and maximum number of vCPUs available for this instance type.

You can specify a custom number of vCPUs when launching this instance type. For more details on valid vCPU counts and how to start using this feature, visit the Optimize CPUs documentation page here.

*** Instances marked with "Up to" Network Bandwidth have a baseline bandwidth and can use a network I/O credit mechanism to burst beyond their baseline bandwidth on a best effort basis. For more information, see instance network bandwidth.

Memory optimized instances are designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory.

Amazon EC2 R8g instances are powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors. They deliver the high price performance in Amazon EC2 for memory-intensive workloads.

Features:

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processors
• Larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than R7g instances
• Features the latest DDR5-5600 memory
• Optimized for Amazon EBS by default
• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server
• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on r8g.24xlarge, r8g.48xlarge, r8g.metal-24xl, r8g.metal-48xl
• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

All instances have the following specs:

Custom-built Amazon Graviton4 processor

Optimized for Amazon

EBSEnhanced networking†

Use cases

Memory-intensive workloads such as open source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

Amazon EC2 R7g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton3 processors. They deliver the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for memory-optimized applications.

Features

• Powered by custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processors

• Features the latest DDR5 memory that offers 50% more bandwidth compared to DDR4

• 20% higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to R6g instances

• EBS-optimized by default

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on r7g.16xlarge and r7g.metal instances

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

Features

• Custom-built Amazon Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm cores

• EBS Optimized

• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

Memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6i instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to R5 instances. These instances are SAP-Certified and are an ideal fit for memory-intensive workloads (SQL and NoSQL databases), distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached and Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters).

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• Up to 15% better compute price performance over R5 instances

• Up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to R5 instances

• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed

• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store

• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge and metal sizes

• Built on the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Memory-intensive workloads such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches like Memcached and Redis, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time big data analytics like Hadoop and Spark clusters.

Amazon EC2 R6g instances are powered by Arm-based Amazon Graviton2 processors. They deliver up to 40% better price performance over current generation R5 instances for memory-intensive applications.

Features

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.

• Support for Enhanced Networking with Up to 25 Gbps of Network bandwidth.

• EBS-optimized by default.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• With R6gd 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 instance.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Custom built Amazon Graviton2 Processor with 64-bit Arm cores.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Memory-intensive applications such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics.

Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and are a good choice for a wide range of memory-intensive applications.

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU on all sizes

• Up to 50% better price performance than X1 instances

• Up to 100 Gbps of networking speed

• Up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

In-memory databases (e.g. SAP HANA, Redis) traditional databases (e.g. Oracle DB, Microsoft SQL Server), and in-memory analytics (e.g. SAS, Aerospike).

Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and are a good choice for a wide range of large scale memory-intensive applications.

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• 32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU on all sizes

• Up to 50% better price performance than X1 instances

• Up to 100 Gbps of networking speed

• Up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Large scale in-memory databases (e.g. SAP HANA, Redis) traditional databases (e.g. Oracle DB, Microsoft SQL Server), and in-memory analytics (e.g. SAS, Aerospike).

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are purpose built to run large in-memory databases, including production deployments of SAP HANA, in the cloud.

Features

• Now available in both bare metal and virtualized memory

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System , a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Virtualized instances are available with On-Demand and with 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances purchase options

Specification

• Each logical processor is a hyperthread on 224 cores.

• 6TB, 9TB and 12TB instances are powered by 2.1 GHz (with Turbo Boost to 3.80 GHz) Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Skylake 8176M) or 2nd Generation 2.7 GHz (with Turbo Boost to 4.0 GHz) Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake 8280L)

All instances have the following specs:

• Intel AVX, Intel AVX2, Intel Turbo

• EBS Optimized

• Enhanced Networking

Use Cases

Ideal for running large enterprise databases, including production installations of SAP HANA in-memory database in the cloud. Certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments.

Amazon EC2 X1 instances are optimized optimized for enterprise-class databases and in-memory applications. 

Features

• High frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell) processors.

• One of the lowest prices per GiB of RAM.

• Up to 1,952 GiB of DRAM-based instance memory.

• SSD instance storage for temporary block-level storage and EBS-optimized by default at no additional cost.

• Ability to control processor C-state and P-state configuration.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Haswell E7-8880 v3).

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

In-memory databases (e.g. SAP HANA), big data processing engines (e.g. Apache Spark or Presto), high performance computing (HPC). Certified by SAP to run Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Suite on HANA (SoH), Business Suite S/4HANA.

Amazon EC2 R5 instances deliver 5% additional memory per vCPU than R4 and the largest size provides 768 GiB of memory. In addition, R5 instances deliver a 10% price per GiB improvement and a ~20% increased CPU performance over R4.

Features

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon® Platinum 8000 series processors (Skylake 8175M or Cascade Lake 8259CL) with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set.

• Up to 768 GiB of memory per instance.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• With R5d 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 R5 instance.

• New 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes now available..

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.1 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

R5 instances are well suited for memory intensive applications such as high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 R5a instances are the latest generation of Memory Optimized instances ideal for memory-bound workloads and are powered by AMD EPYC 7000 series processors. R5a instances deliver up to 10% lower cost per GiB memory over comparable instances.

Features

• AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz.

• Up to 20 Gbps network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking.

• Up to 768 GiB of memory per instance.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Instance storage offered via EBS or NVMe SSDs that are physically attached to the host server.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

R5a instances are well suited for memory intensive applications such as high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications.

Amazon EC2 z1d instances offer both high compute capacity and a high memory footprint. High frequency z1d instances deliver a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz, the fastest of any cloud instance.

Features

• Custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (Skylake 8151) with a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz with new Intel Advanced Vector Extension (AVX-512) instruction set.

• Up to 1.8TB of instance storage.

• High memory with up to 384 GiB of RAM.

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• With z1d 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 z1d instance.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 4.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Ideal for electronic design automation (EDA) and certain relational database workloads with high per-core licensing costs.

Amazon EC2 R4 instances are optimized for memory-intensive applications and offer better price per GiB of RAM than R3.

Features

• High Frequency Intel Xeon scalable (Broadwell E5-2686 v4) processors.

• DDR4 Memory.

• Support for Enhanced Networking.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

High performance databases, data mining & analysis, in-memory databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, applications performing real-time processing of unstructured big data, Hadoop/Spark clusters, and other enterprise applications.

Each vCPU on R6g and X2gd instances is a core of the Amazon Graviton2 processor.

* r5.metal and r5d.metal provide 96 logical processors on 48 physical cores; they run on single servers with two physical Intel sockets.

* z1d.metal provides 48 logical processors on 24 physical cores.

*** Instances marked with "Up to" Network Bandwidth have a baseline bandwidth and can use a network I/O credit mechanism to burst beyond their baseline bandwidth on a best effort basis. For more information, see instance network bandwidth.

Storage optimized instances are designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage. They are optimized to deliver tens of thousands of low-latency, random I/O operations per second (IOPS) to applications.

Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using Amazon Nitro NVMe SSDs.

Features

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake 8375C)

• Up to 30% better compute price performance than I3 instances

• Up to 30 TB of NVMe storage from Amazon Nitro SSDs that provide up to 60% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3 instances

• Up to 75 Gbps of networking speed

• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store

• A new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory

• Supports Elastic Fabric Adapter on the 32xlarge size

• Support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME)

• Built on the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor

• Support for new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX 512) instructions for faster execution of cryptographic algorithms

• Support for Torn Write Prevention (TWP) to enable additional performance and reduce latencies with database workloads such as MySQL and MariaDB.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Up to 3.5 GHz 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

These instances are designed to maximize transactions per second (TPS) for I/O demanding workloads that require very fast access to small to medium sized data sets on local storage such as transactional databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server), and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike and Redis). I4i instances are also an ideal fit for workloads that can benefit from high compute performance per TB of storage such as data analytics and search engines.

This instance family provides Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD-backed instance storage optimized for low latency, very high random I/O performance, high sequential read throughput and provide high IOPS at a low cost.

Features

• High Frequency Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Broadwell E5-2686 v4) with base frequency of 2.3 GHz.

• Up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking.

• High Random I/O performance and High Sequential Read throughput.

• Support bare metal instance size for workloads that benefit from direct access to physical processor and memory.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Small to medium-scale NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike), in-memory databases (e.g. Redis), scale-out transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, analytics workloads.

This instance family provides dense Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD instance storage optimized for low latency, high random I/O performance, high sequential disk throughput, and offers the lowest price per GB of SSD instance storage on Amazon EC2. 

Features

• Up to 60 TB of NVMe SSD instance storage.

• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth using Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking.

• High random I/O performance and high sequential disk throughput.

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

• Powered by the Amazon Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.

• Support bare metal instance size for workloads that benefit from direct access to physical processor and memory.

• Support for Elastic Fabric Adapter on i3en.24xlarge.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 3.1 GHz all core turbo Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) processors.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel AVX-512†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking.

Use Cases

Small to large-scale NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Aerospike), in-memory databases (e.g. Redis), scale-out transactional databases, distributed file systems, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, analytics workloads.

Amazon EC2 D2 instances feature up to 48 TB of HDD-based local storage, deliver high disk throughput, and offer the lowest price per disk throughput performance on Amazon EC2.

Features

• High-frequency Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Haswell E5-2676 v3).

• HDD storage.

• Consistent high performance at launch time.

• High disk throughput.

• Support for Enhanced Networking.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Processor.

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce and Hadoop distributed computing, distributed file systems, network file systems, log or data-processing applications.

Each vCPU is a thread of either an Intel Xeon core or an AMD EPYC core, except for T2 and m3.medium.

† AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, and Enhanced Networking are only available on instances launched with HVM AMIs.

* This is the default and maximum number of vCPUs available for this instance type.

You can specify a custom number of vCPUs when launching this instance type. For more details on valid vCPU counts and how to start using this feature, visit the Optimize CPUs documentation page here.

*** Instances marked with "Up to" Network Bandwidth have a baseline bandwidth and can use a network I/O credit mechanism to burst beyond their baseline bandwidth on a best effort basis. For more information, see instance network bandwidth.

Accelerated computing instances use hardware accelerators, or co-processors, to perform functions, such as floating point number calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching, more efficiently than is possible in software running on CPUs.

Amazon EC2 P3 instances deliver high performance compute in the cloud with up to 8 NVIDIA® V100 Tensor Core GPUs and up to 100 Gbps of networking throughput for machine learning and HPC applications.

Features

• Up to 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, each pairing 5,120 CUDA Cores and 640 Tensor Cores

• High frequency Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Broadwell E5-2686 v4) for p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge, and p3.16xlarge.

• High frequency 2.5 GHz (base) Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Skylake 8175) for p3dn.24xlarge.

• Supports NVLink for peer-to-peer GPU communication.

• Provides up to 100 Gbps of aggregate network bandwidth.

• EFA support on p3dn.24xlarge instances.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• Intel AVX†, Intel AVX2†, Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

• p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge, and p3.16xlarge have 2.3 GHz (base) and 2.7 GHz (turbo) Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors. .

Use Cases

Machine/Deep learning, high performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, drug discovery.

Amazon EC2 G4dn instances are designed to help accelerate machine learning inference and graphics-intensive workloads.

Features

• 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake P-8259L).

• Up to 8 NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs.

• Up to 100 Gbps of networking throughput.

• Up to 1.8 TB of local NVMe storage.

Specification

All instances have the following specs:

• 2.5 GHz Cascade Lake 24C processors.

• Intel AVX, Intel AVX2, Intel AVX-512, and Intel Turbo.

• EBS Optimized.

• Enhanced Networking†.

Use Cases

Machine learning inference for applications like adding metadata to an image, object detection, recommender systems, automated speech recognition, and language translation. G4 instances also provide a very cost-effective platform for building and running graphics-intensive applications, such as remote graphics workstations, video transcoding, photo-realistic design, and game streaming in the cloud. 

Amazon EC2 G5 instances are designed to accelerate graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference. They can also be used to train simple to moderately complex machine learning models.

Features

• 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7R32)

• Up to 8 NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs

• Up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth

• Up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe local storage

Specification

G5 instances have the following specs:

• 2nd Generation

• AMD EPYC processors

• EBS Optimized

• Enhanced

• Networking

Use Cases

Graphics-intensive applications such as remote workstations, video rendering, and cloud gaming to produce high fidelity graphics in real time. Training and inference deep learning models for machine learning use cases such as natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engine use cases.

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances are built from the ground up to support machine learning inference applications.

Features

• Up to 16 Amazon Inferentia Chips.

• Amazon Neuron SDK.

• High frequency 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake P-8259L).

• Up to 100 Gbps networking.