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Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available

Amazon EC2 launches C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% better compute performance and featuring the Nitro Isolation Engine for enhanced security.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) has launched C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. C9g instances are ideal for workloads such as high-performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, real-time analytics, and ad serving. C9gd instances provide local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage for compute-intensive workloads requiring high-speed, low-latency local storage for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. These instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton4-based C8g and C8gd instances, with up to 30% faster performance for databases, up to 35% faster for web applications, and up to 35% faster for machine learning. They feature a 5x larger cache and the fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud. Built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System, these instances are the first to feature the Nitro Isolation Engine, using formal verification to provide mathematical assurance that customer workloads are isolated from each other and AWS operators, pioneering a new standard for mathematically proven cloud security. C9g and C9gd instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Frankfurt) regions and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, Spot instances, Dedicated instances, or Dedicated hosts.

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