Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available | Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a are generally available, amazon announced general availability of a new EC2 instance type.

5th Generation AMD EPYC processors power Hpc8a instances with up to 4.5 GHz maximum frequency processor generation and maximum frequency stated for the instances.

Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance, 42% greater memory bandwidth, and up to 25% better price-performance than Hpc7a instances performance and efficiency comparisons vs previous generation Hpc7a instances provided by AWS.

Hpc8a.96xlarge provides 192 physical cores and 768 GiB memory, instance size and hardware specifications listed by AWS.

Hpc8a instances support up to 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking networking capability and adapter specified for the instances.