AMD EPYC Processors Now Delivering More Computing Power to AWS

AMD today announced that 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processor powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a instances are now generally available in the AWS U.S. East, AWS U.S. West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions. Powered by a 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor running at frequencies up to 3.3Ghz1, the Amazon EC2 C5a instances are the sixth instance family at AWS powered by AMD EPYC processors. By using the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor, the C5a instance delivers leadership x86 price-performance for a broad set of compute-intensive workloads including batch processing, distributed analytics, data transformations, log analytics and web applications.