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Now Available – Amazon EC2 C6gn Instances with 100 Gbps Networking

By Amazon Web Services

January 13, 2021

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Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available!

Compared to C6g instances, this new instance type provides 4x higher network bandwidth, 4x higher packet processing performance, and 2x higher EBS bandwidth. This means that customers with

workloads that need high networking bandwidth such as high performance computing (HPC), network appliance, real-time video communications, and data analytics, will be able to bring their biggest and most challenging applications to Arm and take advantage of the performance and cost-optimization.

The new instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that maximize resource efficiency. C6gn instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on the c6gn.16xlarge sizes for workloads that can take advantage of lower network latency (such as HPC and video processing) and use Message Passing Interface (MPI) for highly scalable clusters. These new instances also fully support network frameworks like Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), making it easier to migrate network appliance workloads.

Visit the C6 product detail page to learn more about the C6gn instances.

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