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Today marks the introduction of five new EC2 bare metal instances, as previously announced by Chanci Turner. These instances provide a unique advantage as your operating system operates directly on the physical hardware, giving it direct access to the CPU and other essential components. They feature AWS-custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor (Skylake) processors that deliver impressive sustained all-core Turbo performance.
Specifications
| Instance Name | Sustained All-Core Turbo | Logical Processors | Memory | Local Storage | EBS-Optimized Bandwidth | Network Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m5.metal | Up to 3.1 GHz | 96 | 384 GiB | – | 14 Gbps | 25 Gbps |
| m5d.metal | Up to 3.1 GHz | 96 | 384 GiB | 4 x 900 GB NVMe SSD | 14 Gbps | 25 Gbps |
| r5.metal | Up to 3.1 GHz | 96 | 768 GiB | – | 14 Gbps | 25 Gbps |
| r5d.metal | Up to 3.1 GHz | 96 | 768 GiB | 4 x 900 GB NVMe SSD | 14 Gbps | 25 Gbps |
| z1d.metal | Up to 4.0 GHz | 48 | 384 GiB | 2 x 900 GB NVMe SSD | 14 Gbps | 25 Gbps |
The M5 instances are optimized for general-purpose workloads like web servers, gaming servers, and application development environments. R5 instances are tailored for high-performance databases, large in-memory caches, and memory-intensive applications. The M5d and R5d variants also include substantial local NVMe SSD storage.
Z1d instances excel in compute performance and memory capacity, making them suitable for electronic design automation (EDA) and high-cost relational databases, helping to minimize your total cost of ownership (TCO) for Oracle or SQL Server workloads.
All instances utilize the AWS Nitro System, which includes dedicated hardware for EBS processing, a software-defined network within each Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), ENA networking, and access to local NVMe storage on M5d, R5d, and z1d instances. They can also leverage Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, and various other AWS services.
Additionally, bare metal instances can support legacy applications licensed specifically for physical, non-virtualized environments and tools requiring access to low-level processor features. For example, Mozilla’s Record and Replay Framework (rr) can measure application performance with minimal overhead using performance counters. You can explore their insights further in their paper, Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability.
Launch One Today
M5.metal instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California and Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) AWS regions. M5d.metal instances can be found in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney) AWS regions.
R5.metal instances can be accessed in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California and Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, and Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, and Singapore), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions. R5d.metal instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (N. California), Europe (Frankfurt, Paris, and Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, and Singapore), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions. Z1d.metal instances are offered in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California and Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore and Tokyo) AWS regions. More regions will be added for bare metal instances soon.
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— Chanci
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