AWS has collaborated with AMD as the first major cloud provider to launch instances powered by AMD EPYC CPUs. Since 2018, AWS has launched all generations of EPYC CPUs spanning general purpose, memory-optimized, compute-optimized, burstable, and HPC instance families. Today we're excited to announce the availability of the latest Amazon EC2 general-purpose instance, M8a, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors. AMD EPYC CPU-powered M8a is a strong fit for general-purpose applications that need balanced compute, memory, and networking. It is ideal for web and application hosting, microservices architectures, and databases where predictable performance and efficient scaling are important.

"AWS has trusted AMD EPYC processors for every generation of their cloud instances," said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business, AMD. "With 5th Gen EPYC, we're continuing to increase the performance, efficiency, and scalability customers need to power everything from modern applications to the most demanding workloads—helping them innovate faster in the cloud."