AMD continues relationship with AWS with new 4th Gen EPYC processors

During the “Data Center and AI Technology Premiere,” AMD (AMD) announced a continuation of its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AMZN) with a preview of the next generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud M7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. “AWS has worked with AMD since 2018 to offer Amazon EC2 instances to customers. Today, we are seeing customers wanting to bring new types of applications to AWS, like financial applications, applications servers, video transcoding, and simulation modeling,” said David Brown, vice president of Amazon EC2 at AWS. “When we combine the performance of 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with the AWS Nitro System, we’re advancing cloud technology for our customers by allowing them to do more with better performance on even more Amazon EC2 instances.” “AMD and AWS are reimagining what’s possible with cloud performance, driving a differentiated offering for customers with the next generation of Amazon EC2 instances,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president, general manager, EPYC Business, AMD. “We continue to showcase the immense capabilities of the world’s best data center CPU, the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, and our ongoing collaboration with AWS highlights the momentum and demand for EPYC to power faster applications enabling customers to bring a broader range of workloads to the cloud.” The new Amazon EC2 M7a instances, using 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available in preview.