Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes
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— Leading cloud services providers expand their adoption of EPYC CPUs to meet growing public cloud demand —
SANTA CLARA, Calif.:AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard shapes. 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, the world’s best server CPUs for enterprise, AI and cloud[i], enable OCI E6 shapes to deliver up to 2X in cost to performance, compared to the previous E5 instance generation based on testing by OCI[ii].
The new OCI E6 shapes build on the success of the previous E5 generation to deliver leadership performance and cost efficiency for general-purpose and compute-intensive workloads. These shapes add to the selection of more than a thousand compute instance types available across the major cloud service providers powered by AMD EPYC processors.
“The rapid adoption of AMD EPYC processors in the cloud underscores our ability to deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that enable our partners to create highly competitive cloud offerings,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business, AMD. “The combination of OCI’s flexible infrastructure and the performance of 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors helps customers accelerate their most demanding workloads while optimizing their cloud infrastructure.”
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is committed to providing our customers with the best-performing, most cost-effective cloud solutions,” said Donald Lu, senior vice president, Compute, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “With the new OCI Compute E6 Standard shapes powered by AMD EPYC processors, we are delivering an exceptional combination of compute power, scalability, and efficiency that meets the demands of today’s most complex workloads.”
Availability and Customer Adoption
OCI E6 Standard bare metal instances and virtual machines are available today in multiple regions, including US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix), US Midwest (Chicago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), and UK South (London), with a rollout planned for additional regions in the coming months.
[i] EPYC-029D: Comparison based on thread density, performance, features, process technology and built-in security features of currently shipping servers as of 10/10/2024. EPYC 9005 series CPUs offer the highest thread density, leads the industry with 500+ performance world records including world record enterprise leadership Java® ops/sec performance, top HPC leadership with floating-point throughput performance, AI end-to-end performance with TPCx-AI performance and highest energy efficiency scores. Compared to 5th Gen Xeon, the 5th Gen EPYC series also has more DDR5 memory channels with more memory bandwidth and supports more PCIe® Gen5 lanes for I/O throughput, and has up to 5x the L3 cache/core for faster data access. The EPYC 9005 series uses advanced 3-4nm technology, and offers Secure Memory Encryption + Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) + SEV Encrypted State + SEV-Secure Nested Paging security features. For additional details, see https://www.amd.com/en/legal/claims/epyc.html#q=epyc5#EPYC-029D
[ii] OCI launches high-performance E6 Standard compute instances powered by AMD: Comparative workload performance per core cost analysis for E5 and E6 shapes – https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/oci-launches-highperformance-e6-standard-compute-instances-powered-by-amd
