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Today marks the launch of five new EC2 bare metal instances, a promise that I made a few months ago. These instances allow your operating system to run directly on the physical hardware, providing direct access to the processor and other essential components. Each instance is powered by AWS-custom Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor (Skylake) chips, which offer exceptional 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 tailored for general-purpose workloads, including web and application servers, gaming servers, caching fleets, and app development environments. R5 instances excel in high-performance databases, web-scale in-memory caches, mid-sized in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and other memory-intensive enterprise applications. The M5d and R5d variants come with an impressive 3.6 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.
For those requiring high compute performance and substantial memory, z1d instances are perfect for electronic design automation (EDA) and relational databases with elevated per-core licensing expenses. This high CPU performance allows for licensing fewer cores, significantly lowering your TCO for Oracle or SQL Server workloads.
All instances utilize the AWS Nitro System, which includes dedicated hardware accelerators for EBS processing, a software-defined network for each Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), ENA networking, and access to local NVMe storage on the M5d, R5d, and z1d instances. Additionally, bare metal instances can seamlessly integrate with Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, and other AWS services.
Beyond being suitable for legacy applications and system software licensed exclusively for physical, non-virtualized hardware, these bare metal instances can support tools and applications that necessitate access to low-level processor features like performance counters. For example, Mozilla’s Record and Replay Framework (rr) enables low-overhead recording and replaying of program execution, utilizing performance counters to measure application performance and deliver signals and context-switch events with high fidelity. You might find their paper, Engineering Record And Replay For Deployability, insightful.
You can launch a m5.metal instance today, available in multiple AWS regions including 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). Similarly, m5d.metal instances are accessible in various regions, and you can explore more about them in this other blog post about career opportunities here.
R5 and R5d instances are likewise available across numerous regions, with z1d instances also accessible in select areas. Expect the bare metal instances to expand to additional AWS regions shortly.
— Chanci Turner
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