Amazon EC2 C7g Instances

Best price performance for compute-intensive workloads in Amazon EC2
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Why Amazon EC2 C7g Instances?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads. C7g instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. They offer up to 25% better performance over the sixth-generation AWS Graviton2-based C6g instances. To enable high-speed access to data in memory, C7g instances are the first in the cloud to feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory, which provides 50% higher memory bandwidth compared to DDR4 memory.

C7g instances are available with a local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage option (C7gd) for applications that need high-speed, low latency storage. C7gd instances have up to 45% better real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances.

C7gn instances are powered by AWS Graviton3E processors and the new fifth-generation AWS Nitro Cards. C7gn instances offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 3x higher packet-processing performance per vCPU compared with comparable current generation x86-based network-optimized instances. These new instances are ideal for running the most demanding network-intensive workloads, such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Announcing Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3

Benefits

C7g and C7gn instances deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based C6g and C6gn instances respectively. They are ideal for a large number of compute-intensive applications that are built on Linux, such as HPC, video encoding, gaming, and CPU-based ML inference.

C7g and C7gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The AWS Nitro System is a combination of dedicated hardware and a lightweight hypervisor that delivers isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. AWS Graviton3 and AWS Graviton3E processors offer enhanced security with always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. These instances also support encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.

AWS Graviton-based instances are supported by many Linux operating systems, including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Many popular applications and services for security, monitoring and management, containers, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) from AWS and software partners also support AWS Graviton-based instances. The AWS Graviton Ready program offers certified solutions from partner software vendors that can be used on AWS Graviton-based instances.

Features

AWS Graviton3 is the latest generation of Arm-based processors designed by AWS that provide high price performance for workloads in Amazon EC2. AWS Graviton3 processors deliver up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, and up to 2x faster cryptographic workload performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. Additionally, Graviton3 processors deliver up to 3x better performance compared to Graviton2 processors for ML workloads, including support for bfloat16. C7gn instances are powered by AWS Graviton3E processors, which provide up to 35% higher vector-instruction performance compared to AWS Graviton3 processors. This improvement provides higher performance benefits for HPC applications.

C7g and C7gn instances use leading-edge DDR5 memory to provide 50% higher bandwidth compared to C6g and C6gn instances. C7g instances are also available with local instance storage option (C7gd). C7gn instances deliver 2x higher enhanced networking bandwidth compared to C6gn instances for network-intensive applications, such as network appliances and data analytics. C7g, C7gd, and C7gn instances have support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) in the 16xlarge and bare-metal sizes.

The AWS Nitro System is a rich collection of building blocks that offloads many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and software. It delivers high performance, high availability, and high security, reducing virtualization overhead.

Product Details

  • C7g

  • Amazon EC2 C7g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processors. They deliver the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive applications.

    Instance Size vCPU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)

    c7g.medium

    1

    2

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7g.large

    2

    4

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7g.xlarge

    4

    8

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7g.2xlarge

    8

    16

    EBS-Only

    Up to 15

    Up to 10

    c7g.4xlarge

    16

    32

    EBS-Only

    Up to 15

    Up to 10

    c7g.8xlarge

    32

    64

    EBS-Only

    15

    10

    c7g.12xlarge

    48

    96

    EBS-Only

    22.5

    15

    c7g.16xlarge

    64

    128

    EBS-Only

    30

    20
    c7g.metal 64 128 EBS-Only 30 20

    c7gd.medium

    1

    2

    1 x 59 NVMe SSD

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7gd.large

    2

    4

    1 x 118 NVMe SSD

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7gd.xlarge

    4

    8

    1 x 237 NVMe SSD

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    c7gd.2xlarge

    8

    16

    1 x 474 NVMe SSD

    Up to 15

    Up to 10

    c7gd.4xlarge

    16

    32

    1 x 950 NVMe SSD

    Up to 15

    Up to 10

    c7gd.8xlarge

    32

    64

    1 x 1900 NVMe SSD

    15

    10

    c7gd.12xlarge

    48

    96

    2 x 1425 NVMe SSD

    22.5

    15

    c7gd.16xlarge

    64

    128

    2 x 1900 NVMe SSD

    30

    20

    c7gd.metal

    64

    128

    2 x 1900 NVMe SSD

    30

    20
  • C7gn

  • Amazon EC2 C7gn instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton3E processors and the latest generation AWS Nitro Cards. C7gn instances deliver up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance than previous generation C6gn instances.

    Instance Size vCPU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)

    c7gn.medium

    1

    2

    EBS-Only

    Up to 25

    Up to 10

    c7gn.large

    2

    4

    EBS-Only

    Up to 30

    Up to 10

    c7gn.xlarge

    4

    8

    EBS-Only

    Up to 40

    Up to 10

    c7gn.2xlarge

    8

    16

    EBS-Only

    Up to 50

    Up to 10

    c7gn.4xlarge

    16

    32

    EBS-Only

    50

    Up to 10

    c7gn.8xlarge

    32

    64

    EBS-Only

    100

    Up to 20

    c7gn.12xlarge

    48

    96

    EBS-Only

    150

    Up to 30

    c7gn.16xlarge

    64

    128

    EBS-Only

    200

    Up to 40

    c7gn.metal

    64

    128

    EBS-Only

    200

    Up to 40

     

Customer testimonials

Here are some examples of how customers and partners have achieved their business agility, price performance, cost savings, and sustainability goals with Amazon EC2 C7g instances.

  • Tealium

    Tealium connects customer data across web, mobile, offline, and IoT so businesses can better connect with their customers. Tealium’s turnkey integration environment supports more than 1,300 built-in connections, empowering brands to create a complete and real-time customer data infrastructure.

    Tealium relies on network-optimized Amazon EC2 instances for some of our most intensive real-time workload management applications. We observed up to 29% better performance in Amazon EC2 C7gn instances compared to Amazon EC2 C6gn instances. This improves our customer experience through lower load time for data queries and reinvestment of the cost savings to create more features and capabilities.

    Capen Brinkley - Sr. SRE Manager / Architect, Tealium

  • Epic Games

    Founded in 1991, Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic’s Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR, and the web.

    As we look to the future and building increasingly immersive and compelling experiences for players, we are excited to use AWS Graviton3-based EC2 C7g instances. Our testing has shown they are suitable for even the most demanding latency-sensitive workloads while providing significant price performance benefits and expanding what is possible within Fortnite and any Unreal Engine-created experience

    Mark Imbriaco - Senior Director of Engineering, Epic Games

  • Formula 1

    Formula 1 (F1) racing began in 1950 and is the world’s most prestigious motor racing competition, as well as the world’s most popular annual sporting series

    We had already seen that Graviton2-based C6gn instances provided us the best price performance for some of our CFD workloads. We have now found Graviton3 C7g instances to be 40% faster than the Graviton2 C6gn instances for those same simulations. We’re excited that EFA will be standard on this instance type, and given this much-improved price performance, we expect Graviton3-based instances to become the optimal choice to run all of our CFD workloads

    Pat Symonds - CTO, Formula 1 Management

  • NextRoll

    NextRoll Inc. is a marketing and data technology company with a mission to accelerate growth for companies, big and small. Powered by machine learning, NextRoll’s technology gathers data, delivers reliable insights, and provides business with approachable tools to target buyers in strategic ways – all on one platform.

    We have found that Graviton3-based C7g instances are ideal for bidders, ad servers, and ElastiCache clusters. We are seeing about 15% more requests handled by C7g instances compared to Graviton2-based C6g instances. With C7g instances, we also observed up to 40% better latency. Based on these findings, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances in production.

    Valentino Volonghi - CTO, Nextroll

  • Snap Inc.

    Snap Inc, known for its popular social media services such as Snapchat and Bitmoji, adopted AWS Graviton2-based instances to optimize their price performance on Amazon EC2.

    We trialed the new AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances and found that they provide significant performance improvements on real workloads compared to previous generation C6g instances. We are excited to migrate our Graviton2-based workloads to Graviton3, including the messaging, storage and the friend graph workloads.

    Aaron Sheldon - Software Engineer, Snap

  • Sprinklr

     

    As the only unified customer experience management platform (Unified-CXM), Sprinklr helps the world's largest and most valuable companies make their customers happier across 30+ digital channels — using industry-leading AI to create insight-driven strategies and better customer experiences.

    We run a wide variety of workloads on AWS Graviton-based instances for their significant price performance benefits. After the announcement of AWS Graviton3, we benchmarked our workloads on the new Amazon EC2 C7g instances and observed 27% better performance compared to the previous generation instances. Based on these results, we are looking forward to adopting AWS Graviton3-based instances in production.

    Jamal Mazhar - VP Infrastructure and DevOps, Sprinklr

  • Twitter

    Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now.

    Twitter is working on a multi-year project to leverage AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances to deliver Twitter timelines. As part of our ongoing effort to drive further efficiencies, we tested the new Graviton3-based C7g instances. Across a number of benchmarks that we've found to be representative of the performance of Twitter workloads, we found Graviton3-based C7g instances deliver 20-80% higher performance vs. Graviton2 based C6g instances, while also reducing tail latencies by as much as 35%. We are excited to utilize Graviton3-based instances in the future to realize significant price performance benefits.

    Nick Tornow - Head of Platform, Twitter