AWS and Intel
AWS and Intel have a 18+ year relationship dedicated to developing, building, and supporting cloud services that are designed to manage cost and complexity, accelerate business outcomes, and scale to meet current and future computing requirements.
 
Intel® processors provide the foundation of many cloud computing services deployed on AWS. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors have the largest breadth, global reach, and availability of compute instances across AWS geographies.

Powerful, Scalable, and Innovative Solutions 

Discover the difference when choosing AWS cloud instances powered by Intel technologies:

• Outstanding security and reliability
• Global availability
• Massive breadth of hardware, software, and services to meet your needs
• 18 years of delivering proven, trusted technology

AWS + Intel: Better Together (1:51)
AWS + Intel: 18 year partnership (2:28)

Gen AI Solutions

Generative AI Solutions Powered by Intel on AWS

  • Open and flexible options
  • CPU-driven AI solutions
  • Simple code development and migration

Storm Reply

Storm Reply cost-effectively deployed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on Intel CPU-based AWS instances, matching GPU price performance and simplifying LLM inferencing.

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ai.io

With Amazon and Intel solutions, the aiScout application connects prospective athletes with professional teams faster than ever before.

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Hugging Face

Simplify the process of creating AI models using powerful, pre-trained models and AI tools from Hugging Face open source libraries and Intel technologies.

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Industries and Use Cases

AWS Intel Automotive

Automotive

• Autonomous Mobility
• Connected Factory
• Safe Driving

AWS Intel Financial Services

Financial Services

• Risk Simulations
• HPC
• AI/ML
• Outpost (retail branch)

AWS Intel Healthcare

Healthcare/Life Sciences

• Drug Discovery
• Doctor Co-pilot
• Patient Family Chatbot

AWS Intel Public Sector

Public Sector

• Federal
• Government
• Education

AWS Intel Telco Iot Edge

Telco/IoT/Edge

• 5G
• Private Networks
• Fleet
• Edge Insights

AWS Intel High Tech

High Tech

• Autonomous Robotics
• Quality Control Cybersecurity

AWS Intel Media

Media/Entertainment

• Content Recommendation Systems
• Digital Content Creation
• Non-Player Character Behavior

Your Workloads Start with Intel Performance on AWS

From the cloud to the edge, modern workloads—like AI, analytics, HPC, and more—can drive massive competitive advantage. AWS and Intel have designed optimized solutions for all your digital transformation needs.

  • 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with accelerators:

    • Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX)
    • Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX-512)
    • Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel® DSA)
    • Intel® In-memory Analytics Accelerator (Intel® IAA)
    • Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT)

    3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are also available with Intel®
    Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost).

    EC2 DL1 instances are available for deep learning at 40% better price performance.1

    Enterprise AI Guide

    AWS and Intel have been working together for over to deliver the most comprehensive set of resources, tools, training, and services for your AI and machine learning services for your business.

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    Demystifying AI

    AI and machine learning are helping businesses around the world improve decision-making, enhance customer engagement, and increase their bottom lines.

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    How to get started with machine learning: expert advice from the front lines

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    How AI gets you from insight to action.

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  • Migrate with Intel technology to modernize common workloads, such as:

    SAP HANA
    VMware Cloud
    Red Hat OpenShift

    Migrating SAP to AWS

    Optimize your SAP environment by migrating to AWS. Running SAP applications on AWS enables your business to be more agile, cost-effective, and secure than running SAP on premises.

    Migrate Windows workloads to AWS

    For greater reliability, broader and deeper functionality, and stronger security, run your Windows and SQL Server workloads on AWS. AWS features 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and delivers 2x better price / performance advantage versus on-premises, resulting in savings of up to 90% on Windows compute costs.

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    Zappos Successfully Migrates to SAP HANA on AWS in Less Than 48 Hours (2:58)

    Supercharge SAP: Why Customers are Deploying on SAP on AWS.

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    Cambridge University automated SAP workloads on AWS and achieved the first stage of automation.

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    innogy Czech Republic evolves and transforms its SAP footprint on AWS.

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  • Hpc6id cost-effectively scales HPC clusters on AWS, delivering up to 2.2x better price performance for data-intensive workloads such as FEA.2
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    Driving growth and profits in financial services

    HPC from AWS, powered by Intel, pays dividends for banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and more.

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    HPC with Intel and AWS

    Together, AWS and Intel offer customers a broad and deep set of leading compute, networking, storage, cloud orchestration, and visualization technologies with a vibrant partner ecosystem.

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    HPC on AWS redefines "What is Possible"

    HPC has been key to solving the most complex problems in every industry, and changing the way we work and live. From weather modeling to genome mapping to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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    Intel Technologies Give Fabric Genomics the Ability to Offer Fast Computational Speeds (3:45)

    Five reasons to run your HPC applications in the cloud

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    Empowering researchers to innovate without constraints

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    Developing high-performance, scalable, cost-effective storage solutions with Intel Cloud Edition Lustre* and AWS.

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  • Cloud-to-edge and hybrid solutions take advantage of on-premises, fully-managed rack configurations:

    • Optimized for VMware Cloud
    • Seamlessly extend AI to the edge with Intel-based technologies
    • Private networks
    • Seamlessly extend virtual private cloud (VPC) on premises

    VMware Cloud on AWS powered by Intel

    Amazon EC2 instances for VMware Cloud on AWS, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, deliver high networking throughput and lower latency.

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    AWS Outposts

    AWS Outposts is a hybrid cloud solution that brings the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, management tools, support, and operating model that customers are familiar with, in AWS, to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility.

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    IoT – Day One (3:14)

    Working together, AWS and Intel enable IoT solution development and deployment.

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    Enabling IoT insights and voice services for power and utility companies.

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    It is still Day One in the Internet of Things (IoT).

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    Securing Edge to Cloud IoT solutions with Intel and Amazon Web Services.

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Case Studies

How Customers Win with AWS and Intel

Explore the latest case studies and videos from our partners and customers to learn how together we’re creating technology that moves the world forward.Read more case studies

Netflix Optimizes Amazon Instance Performance and Reduces Costs, Using Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Analysis Tools

The latest Intel tools help identify bottlenecks down to the micro-architecture level.

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Speed AI Development and Deployment Using 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors, Habana® Gaudi®2 HPUs, and Hugging Face Open Source Libraries

Amazon instances featuring Intel® AI acceleration technologies, with Optimum Intel and Optimum Habana libraries, give companies powerful tools for generative AI implementation.

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With Amazon and Intel Solutions, the aiScout App Connects Prospective Athletes with Professional Teams Faster Than Ever Before

Ai.io lowers hosting costs by 40% and claims a 50-200% inference performance increase using the latest Amazon instances and Intel processors.

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Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring Intel® Gaudi® Processors Help Reply Save Up to 40 Percent in AI Training Costs

Rather than GPU-based instances, Reply chooses Amazon DL1 instances to train the open-source CARLA traffic light detection system that makes self-driving vehicles safer.

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Instance Types

Intel technologies are the hardware infrastructure powering the majority of AWS instances. These instances span a massive array of demands. Instances can be scaled and optimized with the right mix of resource capacity—CPU, memory, storage, and networking—to meet each customer’s specific workload needs.

  • General Purpose
  • General Purpose

    Intel-based general purpose AWS instances offer balanced cloud infrastructure to suit a wide variety of workloads. These instances are ideal for applications that use compute, memory, and networking in equal proportions, such as web servers and code repositories.

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    • M7i: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M7i-Flex: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M6i: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M6id: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M6in: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M6ind: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M5: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M5zn: 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M5d: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • M5dn: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • T3 (burstable): Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
  • Compute Optimized
  • Compute Optimized

    Compute optimized AWS instances enabled by Intel focus on delivering high performance for compute-intensive workloads, like media transcoding, HPC, scientific modeling, and high-traffic servers, including gaming services.

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    • C7i: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C7i-Flex: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C6i: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C6id: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • 6ind: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C6in: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C5: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C5d: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • C5n: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
  • Accelerated Compute
  • Accelerated Compute

    These Intel-enabled AWS instances combine powerful CPUs with other add-in accelerators and GPUs to support workloads with intensive floating-point calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching.

    Learn more about accelerated compute instances ›

    •  DL1: Intel® Gaudi® Accelerators 
    •  G4dn: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 
    •  P4: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 
  • Memory Optimized
  • Memory Optimized

    For workloads that process large data sets in memory, AWS memory optimized instances enabled by Intel prioritize memory capacity and input/output speed.

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    • R7i: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R7iz: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • U7i: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R6i: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R6id: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R6in: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R6idn: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • X2idn: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • X2iedn: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R5: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R5d: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R5dn: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • R5b: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • X2iezn: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
  • Storage Optimized
  • Storage Optimized

    Intel-enabled storage optimized instances focus on delivering high-capacity data storage with high sequential read/write speeds. This allows for low-latency data transmission to other applications

    Learn more about storage optimized instances ›

    • I4i: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • D3: 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 
    • D3en: 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 
  • High-performance Computing
  • High-performance Computing


     Ideal for applications that benefit from high-performance processors, including large, complex simulations and deep learning workloads.

    Learn more about high-performance computing instances ›

    • HPC6id: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 

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