Just last week I told you about our plans to launch EC2 Instances with Faster Processors and More Memory. Today I am happy to report that the R5, R5d, and z1d instances are available now and you can start using them today. Let’s take a look at each one!

R5 Instances

The memory-optimized R5 instances use custom Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8000 Series (Skylake-SP) processors running at up to 3.1 GHz, powered by sustained all-core Turbo Boost. They are perfect for distributed in-memory caches, in-memory analytics, and big data analytics, and are available in six sizes:

Instance Name vCPUs Memory EBS-Optimized Bandwidth Network Bandwidth r5.large 2 16 GiB Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5.xlarge 4 32 GiB Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5.2xlarge 8 64 GiB Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5.4xlarge 16 128 GiB 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5.12xlarge 48 384 GiB 7.0 Gbps 10 Gbps r5.24xlarge 96 768 GiB 14.0 Gbps 25 Gbps

You can launch R5 instances today in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) Regions. To learn more, read about R5 and R5d Instances.

R5d Instances

The R5d instances share their specs with the R5 instances, and also include up to to 3.6 TB of local NVMe storage. Here are the sizes:

Instance Name vCPUs Memory Local Storage EBS-Optimized Bandwidth Network Bandwidth r5d.large 2 16 GiB 1 x 75 GB NVMe SSD Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5d.xlarge 4 32 GiB 1 x 150 GB NVMe SSD Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5d.2xlarge 8 64 GiB 1 x 300 GB NVMe SSD Up to 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5d.4xlarge 16 128 GiB 2 x 300 GB NVMe SSD 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r5d.12xlarge 48 384 GiB 2 x 900 GB NVMe SSD 7.0 Gbps 10 Gbps r5d.24xlarge 96 768 GiB 4 x 900 GB NVMe SSD 14.0 Gbps 25 Gbps

The R5d instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) Regions. To learn more, read about R5 and R5d Instances.

z1d Instances

The high frequency z1d instances use custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors running at up to 4.0 GHz, powered by sustained all-core Turbo Boost, perfect for Electronic Design Automation (EDA), financial simulation, relational database, and gaming workloads that can benefit from extremely high per-core performance. They are available in six sizes:

Instance Name vCPUs Memory Local Storage EBS-Optimized Bandwidth Network Bandwidth z1d.large 2 16 GiB 1 x 75 GB NVMe SSD Up to 2.333 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps z1d.xlarge 4 32 GiB 1 x 150 GB NVMe SSD Up to 2.333 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps z1d.2xlarge 8 64 GiB 1 x 300 GB NVMe SSD 2.333 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps z1d.3xlarge 12 96 GiB 1 x 450 GB NVMe SSD 3.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps z1d.6xlarge 24 192 GiB 1 x 900 GB NVMe SSD 7.0 Gbps 10 Gbps z1d.12xlarge 48 384 GiB 2 x 900 GB NVMe SSD 14.0 Gbps 25 Gbps

The fast cores allow you to run your existing jobs to completion more quickly than ever before, giving you the ability to fine-tune your use of databases and EDA tools that are licensed on a per-core basis.

You can launch z1d instances today in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. To learn more, read about z1d Instances.

In the Works

You will be able to create Amazon ElastiCache instances that make use of the R5 in the next two or three months.

The r5.metal, r5d.metal, and z1d.metal instances are on the near-term roadmap and I’ll let you know when they are available.

— Jeff;