Amazon EC2 G7 Instances Launch with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU

AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances as the first major cloud provider to support the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. G7 instances are built on 6th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance compared to the previous-generation G6 instances.

Key improvements in G7 instances include:

• Enhanced GPU Memory: Each GPU provides 32GB of memory, with 1.33x the memory capacity and 2.45x the bandwidth compared to G6. It features 5th-generation Tensor Cores and 4th-generation RT Cores.
• High-Performance Networking and Storage: Supports up to 700 Gbps of network throughput via EFA (7x that of G6), and provides up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.
• Advanced Video Engine: Supports high-resolution workflows through 9th-generation NVENC and 6th-generation NVDEC engines, capable of handling 1.5x more concurrent video streams than G6.

G7 instances can be configured with up to 8 GPUs, and support NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P and RDMA to ensure low-latency communication for multi-GPU and multi-node workloads.