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AWS EC2 Introduces M8a Instances with Up to 30 Percent Higher Performance Than M7a
Amazon EC2 announced the general availability of the M8a instance family, powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC (code-named "Turin") processors with a maximum clock speed of 4.5 GHz. These new instances deliver up to 30% higher compute performance and up to 19% better price performance compared to the previous M7a generation.
The M8a family also brings improvements across memory, network, and storage, AWS said. It provides 45% higher memory bandwidth than M7a, supports network bandwidth up to 75 Gbps, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth up to 60 Gbps--an increase of roughly 50%. Each vCPU corresponds to a physical core, with no simultaneous multithreading (SMT). The lineup spans from 1 vCPU with 4 GiB RAM up to 192 vCPUs with 768 GiB RAM, including two bare-metal options (metal-24xl and metal-48xl).
Built on the AWS Nitro System, M8a instances support instance bandwidth configuration (IBC), allowing customers to scale network or EBS bandwidth by up to 25% to optimize for specific workloads. They are SAP-certified and intended for a broad range of general-purpose applications including web and application servers, microservices, gaming, simulation, rendering, caching, analytics, databases, and development environments.
Initial region availability includes US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain). Purchasing options include On-Demand, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, and Dedicated Hosts.
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