Document history for the Amazon EC2 Instance Types Guide - Amazon EC2
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Document history for the Amazon EC2 Instance Types Guide

The following table describes the instance type releases for Amazon EC2.

ChangeDescriptionDate

M8g instances

New general purpose instances powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors.

September 25, 2024

C8g instances

New compute optimized instances powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors.

September 25, 2024

X8g instances

New memory optimized instances powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors.

September 18, 2024

P5e instances

New accelerated computing instance type for the latest generation GPU instances featuring NVIDIA H200 GPUs for large scale ML Training/inference and HPC.

September 9, 2024

G6e instances

New accelerated computing instances that feature up to 8 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, which offer 48 GB of GPU memory.

August 15, 2024

G6e instances

New accelerated computing instances that feature up to 8 NVIDIA L40S GPUs, which offer 48 GB of GPU memory.

August 15, 2024

Nitro version features

Updated Nitro page to include features and instance types by Nitro version. Added Nitro version to the Hypervisor column in the Platform summary tables also.

July 22, 2024

R8g instances

New memory optimized instances powered by Amazon Graviton4 processors and up to 1.5 TiB memory.

July 9, 2024

Mac2-m1ultra instances

New general purpose instance type that features Apple M1 Ultra processors.

June 17, 2024

U7i-12tb, U7in-16tb, U7in-24tb, and U7in-32tb instances

New high memory instance types that feature 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

May 28, 2024

C7i-flex instances

New compute optimized instances featuring Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). They deliver a baseline CPU performance of 40 percent with the ability to deliver up to 100 percent CPU performance for 95 percent of the time over a 24-hour period.

May 14, 2024

G6 and Gr6 instances

New high performance GPU-based instance types for deep learning inference and graphics-intensive applications.

April 4, 2024

C7gn bare metal instances

New c7gn.metal bare metal instance type powered by the latest generation Amazon Graviton3E processors and the new Amazon Nitro cards.

March 26, 2024

C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd bare metal instances

New bare metal instances.

March 6, 2024

DL2q instances

New instances that use Qualcomm AI100 inference accelerators, which feature 7th generation Qualcomm Edge AI cores. These instances can be used to cost-efficiently deploy deep learning (DL) workloads in the cloud or validate performance and accuracy of DL workloads that will be deployed on Qualcomm edge devices.

November 15, 2023

Mac2-m2 instances

New general purpose instance type that features Apple M2 processors.

October 25, 2023

R7i instances

New memory optimized instance types that feature 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

October 16, 2023

C7a instances

New compute optimized instances powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors.

October 4, 2023

Mac2-m2pro instances

New general purpose instance type that features Apple M2 Pro processors.

September 18, 2023

C7i instances

New compute optimized instance types that feature 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

September 14, 2023

R7a instances

New memory optimized instance types featuring 4th generation AMD EPYC 9R14 processors and up to 1536 GiB of system memory.

September 11, 2023

R7iz instances

New high-frequency and high memory instances powered by 4th generation Intel Xeon processors.

September 7, 2023

Hpc7a instances

New compute optimized instance types that feature 4th generation AMD EPYC processors. These instances support up to 300 Gbps networking bandwidth, and up to 192 CPU cores with up to 768 GB of system memory.

August 17, 2023

M7a instances

New general purpose instances powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors.

August 15, 2023

M7i-flex instances

New general purpose instances that offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose applications. They deliver a baseline CPU performance of 40 percent with the ability to deliver up to 100 percent CPU performance for 95 percent of the time over a 24-hour period.

August 2, 2023

M7i instances

New general purpose instance types that feature 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

August 2, 2023

R7gd instances

New memory optimized instances featuring the latest Amazon Graviton3 processors.

July 28, 2023

M7gd instances

New general purpose instances featuring the latest Amazon Graviton3 processors.

July 28, 2023

C7gd instances

New compute optimized instances featuring the latest Amazon Graviton3 processors.

July 28, 2023

P5 instances

New accelerated computing instances that feature 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs with 640 GB high-bandwidth GPU memory, 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors, and 2 TB system memory.

July 26, 2023

Hpc7g instances

New high-performance computing instances powered by Amazon Graviton3E processors that provide up to 35 percent higher vector-instruction processing performance than Graviton3 processors.

June 20, 2023

C7gn instances

New compute optimized instances powered by the latest generation Amazon Graviton3E processors and the new Amazon Nitro cards. These instances offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.

June 20, 2023

I4g instances

New storage optimized instances that features the Amazon Graviton2 processor and Amazon Nitro SSDs.

May 9, 2023

Trn1n instances

New accelerated computing instances optimized for machine learning training powered by Amazon Trainium accelerators.

April 13, 2023

Inf2 instances

New instances featuring Amazon Inferentia2 accelerators, the latest machine learning chip designed by Amazon.

April 13, 2023

Hpc6id instance

New memory optimized instance featuring 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

November 29, 2022

R6in and R6idn instances

New memory optimized instances for network-intensive workloads.

November 28, 2022

M6in and M6idn instances

New general computing instances types.

November 28, 2022

C6in instances

New compute optimized instances ideal for running high performance computing.

November 28, 2022

Trn1 instances

New accelerated computing instances optimized for deep learning powered by Amazon Trainium chips.

October 10, 2022

R6a instances

New memory optimized instances featuring 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors.

July 19, 2022

R6id instances

New memory optimized instances featuring 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

June 9, 2022

M6id instances

New general purpose instances featuring 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

May 26, 2022

C6id instances

New compute optimized instances featuring 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

May 26, 2022

C7g instances

New compute optimized instances featuring Amazon Graviton3 processors.

May 23, 2022

I4i instances

New storage optimized instances featuring 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

April 27, 2022

X2idn and X2iedn instances

New memory optimized instances featuring Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

March 10, 2022

C6a instances

New compute optimized instances featuring 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (Milan).

February 14, 2022

X2iezn instances

New memory optimized instances featuring Intel Xeon Platinum processors (Cascade Lake).

January 26, 2022

Hpc6a instances

New compute optimized instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

January 10, 2022

Im4gn and Is4gen instances

New storage optimized instances.

November 30, 2021

M6a instances

New general purpose instances powered by AMD 3rd Generation EPYC processors.

November 29, 2021

G5g instances

New accelerated computing instances featuring Amazon Graviton2 processors based on 64-bit Arm architecture.

November 29, 2021

R6i instances

New memory optimized instances.

November 22, 2021

G5 instances

New accelerated computing instances featuring up to 8 NVIDIA A10G GPUs and second generation AMD EPY processors.

November 11, 2021

C6i instances

New compute optimized instances featuring Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

October 28, 2021

DL1 instances

New accelerated computing instances featuring Habana Gaudi accelerators and Intel Xeon Platinum processors (Cascade Lake).

October 26, 2021

VT1 instances

New accelerated computing instances that use Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerators and are designed for live video transcoding workloads.

September 13, 2021

M6i instances

New general purpose instances featuring third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake).

August 16, 2021

High memory virtualized instances

Virtualized high memory instances purpose-built to run large in-memory databases. The new types are u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge, u-9tb1.112xlarge, and u-12tb1.112xlarge.

May 11, 2021

X2gd instances

New memory optimized instances featuring an Amazon Graviton2 processor based on 64-bit Arm architecture.

March 16, 2021

C6gn instances

New computed optimized instances featuring an Amazon Graviton2 processor based on 64-bit Arm architecture. These instances can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

December 18, 2020

G4ad instances

New instances powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and AMD 2nd Generation EPYC processors.

December 9, 2020

D3, D3en, M5zn, and R5b instances

New instance types built on the Nitro System.

December 1, 2020

Mac1 instances

New instances built on Apple Mac mini computers that support running macOS workloads on Amazon EC2.

November 30, 2020

P4d instances

New accelerated computing instances that provide a high-performance platform for machine learning and HPC workloads.

November 2, 2020

T4g instances

New general purpose instances powered by Amazon Graviton2 processors, which are based on 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by Amazon for optimized performance and cost.

September 14, 2020

C5ad instances

New compute optimized instances featuring second-generation AMD EPYC processors.

August 13, 2020

C6gd, M6gd, and R6gd instances

New general purpose instances powered by Amazon Graviton2 processors, which are based on 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by Amazon for optimized performance and cost.

July 27, 2020

C6g and R6g instances

New general purpose instances powered by Amazon Graviton2 processors, which are based on 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by Amazon for optimized performance and cost.

June 10, 2020

C5a instances

New compute optimized instances featuring second-generation AMD EPYC processors.

June 4, 2020

M6g instances

New general purpose instances powered by Amazon Graviton2 processors, which are based on 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by Amazon for optimized performance and cost.

May 11, 2020

Inf1 instances

New instances featuring Amazon Inferentia, a machine learning inference chip designed to deliver high performance at a low cost.

December 3, 2019

G4dn instances

New instances featuring NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.

September 19, 2019

I3en instances

New I3en instances can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

May 8, 2019

T3a instances

New instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

April 24, 2019

M5ad and R5ad instances

New instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

March 27, 2019

p3dn.24xlarge instances

New instances that provide 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

December 7, 2018

C5n instances

New instances that provide up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth.

November 26, 2018

A1 instances

New instances featuring Arm-based processors.

November 26, 2018

R5a instances

New instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

November 6, 2018

M5a instances

New instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

November 6, 2018

T3 instances

New instances featuring AMD EPYC processors.

August 21, 2018

z1d instances

New memory optimized instances.

July 25, 2018

R5 and R5d instances

New memory optimized instances.

July 25, 2018

X1e instances

New memory optimized instances.

November 28, 2017

M5 instances

New general purpose instances.

November 28, 2017

H1 instances

New storage optimized instances.

November 28, 2017

C5 instances

New compute optimized instances.

November 6, 2017

P3 instances

New accelerated computing instances.

October 25, 2017

G3 instances

New accelerated computing instances.

July 13, 2017

F1 instances

New accelerated computing instances.

April 19, 2017

I3 instances

New storage optimized instances.

February 23, 2017

R4 instances

New memory optimized instances.

November 30, 2016

P2 instances

New accelerated computing instances.

September 29, 2016

X1 instances

New memory optimized instances.

May 18, 2016

M4 instances

New general purpose instances.

June 11, 2015

D2 instances

New storage optimized instances.

March 24, 2015

C4 instances

New compute optimized instances.

January 11, 2015

T2 instances

New general purpose instances.

June 30, 2014