AMD enhances the AWS offering with 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors

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AMD announced an important extension of the AWS offering based on AMD EPYC processors with the availability of Amazon EC2 M6a instances. The announcement came on the occasion of AWS re: Invent and anticipates the arrival of solutions characterized by a better price / performance ratio and a lower cost than equivalent solutions. Here are all the details.

AMD enhances the AWS offering with AMD EPYC processors: many new features are on the way

AMD presented a extension of the AWS offering with AMD EPYC processors. Thanks to the third generation AMD EPYC processors, M6a instances now guarantee a best price / performance ratio compared to M5a instances. In particular, there has been an improvement in this parameter up to +35%. Also noteworthy is a 10% lower cost compared to equivalent x86-based EC2 instances. The advantages associated with this new solution are therefore really significant.

So many benefits from the new M6a instances

M6a instances can rely on certification SAP making them ideal for workloads such as web and application servers as well as back end servers. Also note that M6a instances are based on the AWS Nitro System and are available with two more instance sizes than M5a (32xlarge and 48x large). The new AWS M6a instances with 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors are already available on the market. Interesting customers can obtain all product information via the official site.