Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads

This article announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances, new memory-optimized compute instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors.

• Highest CPU frequency at 5GHz in the cloud
• Up to 2x higher compute performance than previous X2iezn instances
• 31% better price-performance compared to previous generation
• Ideal for EDA workloads and relational databases requiring high single-threaded performance
• 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio supports vCPU-based licensing models
• Eight sizes available from 2–96 vCPUs with 64–3,072 GiB memory
• Up to 75 Gbps network bandwidth and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth
• Up to 8 TB local NVMe SSD storage for faster processing
• Now available in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
• Purchasable as On-Demand, Savings Plan, Spot, or Dedicated Instances

X8aedz instances provide high-performance computing for memory-intensive workloads, particularly EDA and database applications requiring fast single-threaded processing.