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Final yr, we launched the sixth era of EC2 situations powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors. We’re now increasing our sixth-generation choices to incorporate x86-based situations, delivering value/efficiency advantages for workloads that depend on x86 directions.
In the present day, I’m joyful to announce the supply of the brand new common function Amazon EC2 M6i situations, which provide as much as 15% enchancment in value/efficiency versus comparable fifth-generation situations. The brand new situations are powered by the newest era Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of three.5 GHz.
You may need seen that we’re now utilizing the “i” suffix within the occasion kind to specify that the situations are utilizing an Intel processor. We already use the suffix “a” for AMD processors (for instance, M5a situations) and “g” for Graviton processors (for instance, M6g situations).
In comparison with M5 situations utilizing an Intel processor, this new occasion kind offers:
- A bigger occasion measurement (m6i.32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of reminiscence that makes it simpler and extra cost-efficient to consolidate workloads and scale up purposes.
- As much as 15% enchancment in compute value/efficiency.
- As much as 20% larger reminiscence bandwidth.
- As much as 40 Gbps for Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (EBS) and 50 Gbps for networking.
- At all times-on reminiscence encryption.
M6i situations are match for operating general-purpose workloads corresponding to internet and utility servers, containerized purposes, microservices, and small information shops. The upper reminiscence bandwidth is particularly helpful for enterprise purposes, corresponding to SAP HANA, and excessive efficiency computing (HPC) workloads, corresponding to computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
M6i situations are additionally SAP-certified. For over eight years SAP prospects have been counting on the Amazon EC2 M-family of situations for his or her mission vital SAP workloads. With M6i situations, prospects can obtain as much as 15% higher value/efficiency for SAP purposes than M5 situations.
M6i situations can be found in 9 sizes (the m6i.metallic measurement is coming quickly):
| Identify | vCPUs | Reminiscence (GiB) |
Community Bandwidth (Gbps) |
EBS Throughput (Gbps) |
| m6i.massive | 2 | eight | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| m6i.xlarge | four | 16 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| m6i.2xlarge | eight | 32 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| m6i.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| m6i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | 12.5 | 10 |
| m6i.12xlarge | 48 | 192 | 18.75 | 15 |
| m6i.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | 25 | 20 |
| m6i.24xlarge | 96 | 384 | 37.5 | 30 |
| m6i.32xlarge | 128 | 512 | 50 | 40 |
The brand new situations are constructed on the AWS Nitro System, which is a set of constructing blocks that offloads lots of the conventional virtualization features to devoted , delivering excessive efficiency, excessive availability, and extremely safe cloud situations.
For optimum networking efficiency on these new situations, improve your Elastic Community Adapter (ENA) drivers to model three. For extra data, see this text about how one can get most community efficiency on sixth-generation EC2 situations.
M6i situations help Elastic Material Adapter (EFA) on the m6i.32xlarge measurement for workloads that profit from decrease community latency, corresponding to HPC and video processing.
Availability and Pricing
EC2 M6i situations can be found at the moment in six AWS Areas: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Europe (Eire), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). As normal with EC2, you pay for what you utilize. For extra data, see the EC2 pricing web page.
— Danilo
