AWS launches EC2 C9g and C9gd Graviton5 instances

Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors.

• C9g instances are now generally available and are designed for compute-intensive workloads, with up to 25% higher performance per vCPU than C8g and up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth on the largest size.
• C9gd adds local NVMe SSD storage and up to 30% higher storage performance versus previous-generation local storage instances; both families are available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt).
• The post highlights support for HPC, batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning inference, and ad serving.
• AWS also says the new instances include Instance Bandwidth Configuration, ENA Express, support for up to 128 EBS volumes, and feature the Nitro Isolation Engine for stronger VM isolation.