AWS Launches New Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd Instances Powered by Graviton5 Processors

AWS has officially launched the Graviton5-based Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, which were previously unveiled in preview at re:Invent 2025. The M9gd instances are designed for customers who need high-speed, low-latency local NVMe SSD storage.

The Graviton5 processor delivers the following performance improvements compared to the previous generation Graviton4:

• Compute performance: up to 25% improvement
• Web applications: up to 35% improvement
• Machine learning (ML) inference: up to 35% improvement
• Databases: up to 30% improvement

Notably, this processor is the first among cloud instances to support PCIe Gen6 and DDR5-8800 memory, and its L3 cache capacity is 5x larger than the previous generation. In addition, network bandwidth has improved by an average of 15%, and Amazon EBS bandwidth has improved by 20%.

These performance improvements are optimized for the rapidly growing Agentic AI workloads. Meta is participating as a major customer, deploying tens of millions of cores based on Graviton to support agentic AI technologies such as real-time inference and code generation.