Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances

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Why Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances are next-generation general purpose instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Sapphire Rapids) and feature a 4:1 ratio of memory to vCPU. EC2 instances powered by these custom processors, available only on AWS, offer the best performance among comparable Intel processors in the cloud – up to 15% better performance than Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

M7i-flex instances provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, with up to 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory, and are a great first choice for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources. M7i-flex instances are designed to seamlessly run the most common general-purpose workloads, including web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch processing, microservices, databases, and enterprise applications.

M7i instances offer price performance benefits for workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage. M7i instances are ideal for workloads including large application servers and databases, gaming servers, CPU-based machine learning (ML), and video streaming. M7i instances deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M6i instances.

Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances

Cost optimize with new Amazon EC2 Flex instances

Many customers do not fully utilize all the compute resources of an EC2 instance. Those customers are therefore paying for performance that they don’t need. Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances offer the easiest way to achieve improved price performance for a majority of general purpose workloads. Amazon EC2 Flex instances efficiently use compute resources with the ability to scale up to full compute performance a majority of the time. Flex instances are purpose-built to optimize cost and performance.

Benefits

M7i-flex instances offer the easiest way to optimize costs for a majority of general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i instances offer 15% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i provides additional larger instance sizes that enable consolidation and the ability to run more demanding and larger-sized workloads.

M7i-flex and M7i instances add to the broadest and deepest selection of EC2 instances on AWS. M7i-flex offers the 7 most common sizes from large to 16xlarge. M7i provides 11 sizes (including 2 bare-metal sizes: m7i.metal-24xl and m7i.metal-48xl) with varying amounts of vCPU, memory, networking, and storage.

M7i-flex and M7i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor. Nitro delivers practically all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances, for better overall performance and security. EC2 instances built on the Nitro System can deliver over 15% higher throughput performance on workloads over other cloud providers running the same CPU.

Features

M7i-flex and M7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz (max core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz). These custom processors are only available on AWS and offer the best performance among comparable Intel processors. Both instances include support for always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME).

M7i-flex and M7i instances use DDR5 memory that provides higher bandwidth compared to M6i instances. M7i-flex instances support up to 10 Gbps bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and up to 12.5 Gbps of networking bandwidth. M7i instances support up to 40 Gbps bandwidth to Amazon EBS and up to 50 Gbps of networking bandwidth. Additionally, with M7i you can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an instance (compared to M6i which allowed up to 28 EBS volume attachments to an instance). M7i instances also support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) in the 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes.

4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors offer 4 new built-in accelerators. Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX)—available on both M7i-flex and M7i instances—accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT)—available only on M7i bare metal sizes—enable efficient offload and acceleration of data operations that help in optimizing performance for databases, encryption and compression, and queue management workloads.

The AWS Nitro System can be assembled in many different ways, allowing AWS to flexibly design and rapidly deliver EC2 instance types with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. Nitro Cards offload and accelerate I/O for functions, increasing overall system performance.

Product details

  • M7i-flex

  • Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i-flex instances are a great first choice for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources. M7i-flex instances efficiently use compute resources to deliver a baseline level of performance with the ability to scale up to the full compute performance a majority of the time.

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

    m7i-flex.large

    2

    8

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i-flex.xlarge

    4

    16

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i-flex.2xlarge

    8

    32

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i-flex.4xlarge

    16

    64

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i-flex.8xlarge

    32

    128

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i-flex.12xlarge

    48

    192

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 18.75

    Up to 15

    m7i-flex.16xlarge

    64

    256

    40%

    EBS-Only

    Up to 25

    Up to 20

     

  • M7i

  • Amazon EC2 M7i instances, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M6i instances.

    Instance size

    vCPU

    Memory (GiB)

    Instance Storage (GB)

    		 Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps)

    m7i.large

    2

    8

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i.xlarge

    4

    16

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i.2xlarge

    8

    32

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i.4xlarge

    16

    64

    EBS-Only

    Up to 12.5

    Up to 10

    m7i.8xlarge

    32

    128

    EBS-Only

    12.5

    10

    m7i.12xlarge

    48

    192

    EBS-Only

    18.75

    15

    m7i.16xlarge

    64

    256

    EBS-Only

    25

    20

    m7i.24xlarge

    96

    384

    EBS-Only

    37.5

    30

    m7i.48xlarge

    192

    768

    EBS-Only

    50

    40

    m7i.metal-24xl

    96

    384

    EBS-Only

    37.5

    30

    m7i.metal-48xl

    192

    768

    EBS-Only

    50

    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 M7i instances.

  • Salesforce

    Salesforce empowers companies of every size and industry to connect with their customers through the power of data + AI + CRM + trust.

    Hyperforce is a reimagination of Salesforce's platform architecture for the public cloud. By working with AWS, we provide our customers with the ability to scale rapidly, grow globally, comply with data residency regulations, and leverage the latest AI innovations. Our collaboration means Salesforce customers will benefit from 25% higher throughput and 11% faster response times on Amazon EC2 M7i instances than on M6i instances.

    Vijaya Pula, Software Engineering Principal Architect, Salesforce

  • VMware

    With the launch of M7i instance support for VMware Cloud on AWS, we are introducing a groundbreaking architectural paradigm that separates compute from storage infrastructure. This disaggregated architecture empowers our customers with unparalleled flexibility and choice in configuring their compute/storage options, ultimately resulting in a substantial reduction in total cost of ownership. With the custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors on the M7i.metal-24xl instance, our customers can harness the power of Intel’s Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerators that will help them improve performance efficiency for cutting-edge AI/ML or analytics workloads.

    Narayan Bharadwaj, Vice President and General Manager, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware by Broadcom

  • Tufts Medicine

    The partnership between AWS and Tufts Medicine is more than just leading healthcare innovation; it’s a crusade to protect life’s sanctity - from a newborn’s first breath to a parent’s heartbeat, impacting every life in our communities. It’s a commitment where technology meets humanity. 

    At Tufts Medicine, we’re revolutionizing with Amazon EC2 for our 'Scaling as a Strategy.’ We’ve almost tripled our user session density, skyrocketing performance, and slashing workflow errors. We moved our Epic Hyperspace and Epic Hyperspace Web from Amazon EC2 M5n instances to Amazon M7i instances. With M7i instances we increased our workload's performance by 68% while reducing annual costs by approximately 64% or $1.2M. We’re not just advancing, we’re transforming. Embracing this technological leap, Tufts Medicine is setting new standards in healthcare efficiency and innovation. We don’t just adapt; we transform. That’s our commitment, our ethos.

    Ryan Blackwell, Vice President, Chief Digital Modernization and Cloud Officer, Tufts Medicine

  • Imagine Learning

    Imagine Learning empowers educators to inspire breakthrough moments in every student’s unique learning journey with digital-first, K–12 education solutions.

    Imagine Learning’s market leading Courseware Digital Curriculum platform Imagine Edgenuity was running on previous generation M instances. We assessed the CPU utilization for our platform and realized that while we needed the latest generation performance, we were not using all the CPU resources all the time. To improve price performance, we started using the new Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances. By upgrading to M7i-flex instances, we saw an immediate 20% reduction in instance count and costs and a 40% reduction in launch time. The M7i-flex instances enable us to support more than 40K unique daily educators on the platform and more than 400K unique daily students on the platform.

    Chris Moudy, Vice President of Engineering, Imagine Learning