AI BriefingAWS Launches Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton5 Processors
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AWS has launched Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering improved performance and efficiency.
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AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances based on AWS Graviton5 processors. Compared to the previous generation C8g, C9g instances deliver up to 25% better performance per vCPU, and with DDR5 8800MT/s memory and 5x larger L3 cache, they provide the fastest memory performance among processor instances in the cloud.
These instances are optimized for the following workloads:
- C9g: batch processing, video encoding, distributed analytics, and Agentic AI workloads
- C9gd: HPC simulations requiring high-speed local NVMe SSD storage, temporary caches for ML inference, ad serving engines, and more
C9g and C9gd instances are available in 11 sizes, from medium to 48xlarge. In particular, the 48xlarge model supports up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth and 72 Gbps of EBS bandwidth (2x increase over the previous generation), meeting high-performance computing requirements.
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