Security News > 2020 > June > AWS unveils sixth generation of Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances with three new instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors.
The M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are powered by new AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors that offer up to 7x more performance, 4x more compute cores, and 5x faster memory than the A1 instances-while also delivering up to 40% better price/performance over comparable current generation x86-based instances.
"Today more than ever, customers are looking for innovative ways to increase performance and reduce cost, and Arm processors have emerged as an exciting and mainstream alternative to x86 processors for a wide variety of existing and emerging workloads," said David Brown, Vice President, Amazon EC2, at AWS. "The new Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based, Graviton2 processors represent a significant generational leap for customers, delivering 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances, and already we've seen a broad set of customers embrace them across a wide variety of general purpose, compute optimized, and memory optimized workloads."
"We seamlessly transferred this Java application to Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by the AWS Graviton processor. We've since tested the new Graviton2-based M6g instances and it was able to handle twice the load of an A1. We look forward to running more workloads on the new Graviton2-based instances."
"We were excited to test out the new AWS Graviton2 processors for our globally distributed API workload developed using Java11 + SpringBoot2. Our initial testing showed that the Amazon EC2 M6g instances deliver up to 43% better price/performance vs. the current generation M5 instances. Based on these results we foresee a seamless adoption of the M6g instances and expect to expand our use as soon they become available in additional regions."
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