3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors power latest AWS EC2 C6a Instances
AMD announced that AWS has expanded its AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of the new Amazon EC2 C6a instances powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. Amazon EC2 C6a marks the second AMD EPYC processor-based instance types at AWS, after EC2 M6a.
According to AWS, C6a instances offer up to 15% better compute price performance over previous generation C5a instances and support compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.
Numerous leading cloud providers have recently expanded their AMD-powered offerings – including just last week with Google Cloud’s GA of EPYC-powered C2D Instances. This adds on to the more than 130 new public instances powered by EPYC processors.
You can learn more by visiting this Amazon Web Services page and the Amazon Web Services blog. I’ve also included an AMD press release for your information.
