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Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding to its family of Graviton-powered EC2 instances that serve as workhorses for high-performance computing demands.
Announced today, the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) X2gd instances are said to pack twice as much memory per virtual CPU as Amazon’s older, memory-optimized R6g instances. That makes them ideal for “memory-hungry workloads” such as in-memory databases like Redis, open source relational databases, real-time analytics, caching services, containers and electronic design automation design and verification, Amazon said.
The EC2 X2gd instances join Amazon’s growing family of Graviton instances that run on Arm-based processors. The company debuted the first Graviton-powered EC2 instances in late 2018, and followed those up with a new set featuring the Graviton2 processor in 2019, which became generally available last year.