High-Performance AMD EPYC™ CPUs and Radeon™ Pro GPUs Power New AWS Instance for Graphics Optimized Workloads
December 02 2020 - 9:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has
expanded its AMD-based offerings with a new cloud instance for
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): Amazon EC2 G4ad
instances for graphics-optimized workloads. With this new instance,
AMD now powers eight Amazon EC2 instance families across 20 global
AWS Regions. AMD also announced that Amazon GameLift, a fully
managed dedicated game server hosting solution, is now providing
its video game hosting customers access to AMD EPYC processor-based
Amazon EC2 C5a, M5a and R5a instances.
“Today we build on the strong collaboration between AMD and AWS,
which started in 2017. This expansion of our cooperation is a proof
point of the continued performance and capabilities that AMD
provides its customers,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president
and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions Group,
AMD. “Amazon EC2 G4ad instances are the first powered by both
AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon Pro GPUs, and adding to the existing EPYC
processor-based instances, they exemplify the ways in which AMD
CPUs and GPUs provide fantastic performance and price/performance
for AWS customers.”
“The high-performance capabilities of the AMD EPYC CPUs and
Radeon Pro GPUs are enabling AWS to create a new graphics-focused
instance that help us keep our leadership price/performance
offerings that our customers expect,” said David Brown, Vice
President, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We’re delighted
to continue this great collaboration with AMD, enabling the Amazon
EC2 G4ad instances to provide the industry’s best price performance
for graphics-intensive applications.”
New Amazon EC2 G4ad Instance
Featuring 2nd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon™ Pro V520 GPUs,
the new G4ad instance, which will be available later this month, is
the first AWS instance powered by both 7nm AMD CPUs and GPUs.
- G4ad is built to support graphics-intensive workloads and can
provide customers with up to 45 percent better price performance
and 40 percent better graphics performance, for critical
workstation-class applications and real-time game engines, compared
to existing GPU based, Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.
- Based on the AMD RDNA architecture, the AMD Radeon™ Pro V520
GPUs can deliver highly responsive, cloud-based workstation-class
experiences for the most demanding workloads with enterprise-grade
reliability.
- These instances also come with AMD Radeon™ Pro Software for
Enterprise at no additional cost, offering support for
professionals working with workstation applications and the latest
graphic APIs, like DirectX®, OpenGL® and Vulkan® offering
professional-grade graphics rendering for virtual
workstations.
You can learn more about the AMD and AWS collaboration in this
video interview between AMD CEO Lisa Su and AWS Vice President of
Amazon EC2, David Brown, which will go live on December 2 at
12:30pm PT as part of the AWS Virtual re:Invent sessions.
Amazon GameLift
Amazon GameLift is now providing its video game hosting
customers access on the AMD EPYC based Amazon EC2 C5a, M5a and R5a
instances to provide great price/performance capabilities to its
video game server hosting customers.
With AMD EPYC processors, developers can use Amazon GameLift to
deploy, operate, and scale dedicated high-performance servers for
multiplayer games at up to 10 percent lower cost over comparable
instances. You can read more about the Amazon GameLift service
supporting AMD EPYC processor-based instances here.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processor
- Learn more about AMD Radeon™ Pro V520
- Learn more about the Amazon EC2 G4ad Instance
- Learn more about AWS Workloads Solutions Validated by AMD
- Follow AMD on Twitter
About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has driven innovation in
high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies
― the building blocks for gaming, immersive platforms and the data
center. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading Fortune 500
businesses and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around
the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live,
work and play. AMD employees around the world are focused on
building great products that push the boundaries of what is
possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and
inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:
AMD) website, blog, Facebook and
Twitter pages.
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Aaron Grabein
AMD Communications
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Laura Graves
AMD Investor Relations
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