Key Takeaways
- New AWS Graviton5-based Amazon EC2 M9G instances deliver up to 25% higher performance than the previous generation.
- Each chip features 192 cores and a larger cache, enabling bigger workloads, improved application performance, and lower costs.
- For the 3rd year in a row, over half of the new CPU capacity added to AWS uses Graviton. In fact, 98% of the top 100-1000 EC2 customers, including Adobe, Airbnb, Altacn, Epic Games, F1, Pinterest, SAP, Siemens, Snowflake, and Synopsys, are already seeing the price and performance benefits of Graviton.
As cloud workloads become more complex and larger, organizations commonly struggle to deliver faster performance, lower costs, and meet eco-friendly targets simultaneously. Traditional solutions usually require compromises between speed and capability. To solve this, we are introducing Graviton 5 processors, AWS’s most advanced chip yet, for a wide range of cloud workloads. Graviton 5 delivers up to 25% better compute performance than the previous generation while keeping energy use low, so you can run applications faster, save money, and support your sustainability targets.
Graviton 5 Delivers Measurable Business Impact
Graviton 5-based M9G instances process data faster with 192 CPU cores, reducing inter-core latency and boosting bandwidth for demanding workloads such as gaming analytics and server workloads.
The chip includes a 5x larger L3 cache and a high-speed memory buffer that keeps frequently accessed data close to the processor. Each Graviton 5 core has 2.6x the L3 cache of Graviton 4, resulting in fewer delays waiting for data and faster application response times. Memory performance has also improved with Graviton 5, yielding faster memory speeds that enable you to process larger data sets and run memory-intensive applications more efficiently.
Network and storage bandwidth are higher, improving data transfer, backups, and distributed app performance.
Graviton 5 delivers better performance and consumes less energy, so you can meet your eco-friendly targets without sacrificing performance. These improvements come from AWS controlling everything from chip design to server architecture. Graviton 5 uses the latest 3NM technology, is optimized for AWS needs, and supports system-level improvements such as bare-die cooling.
Graviton 5 Advances Security Without Compromise
Built in the AWS Nitro system, Graviton 5 uses dedicated hardware for security, ensuring resources are focused on your workloads and access is restricted.
Graviton 5 introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, an advancement to the Nitro system that harbors formal verification to provide mathematical certainty that your workloads are isolated from each other and from AWS operators. NGIN’s minimal, formally verified codebase uses mathematical proofs to ensure it behaves exactly as defined, pioneering a new standard for mathematically proven cloud security. We will engage with customers to provide access to the Nitro Isolation Engine implementation so they can evaluate it and the resulting proofs.
Customers In Many Industries Have Seen Strong Results
- Adobe uses Graviton to deliver customized viewing for millions, leveraging greater compute power to process video streams and real-time Epic Games. It depends on Graviton to deliver smooth, competitive gaming to millions of players every day, even during peak demand.
- Formula 1 relies on Graviton to quickly process telemetry data and deliver timely live race updates to fans, improving the quality and speed of fan engagement during events.
- Pinterest relies on Graviton-based systems to serve over 500 million monthly users. With Graviton’s custom performance benefits, they deliver personalized content more efficiently at scale, helping Pinterest maintain a positive user experience and strong platform reliability.
Expanding for Airbnb, started in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests into their co-house. Today, it has over five million hosts and more than two billion guest arrivals worldwide. AWS’s Graviton-based Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances, which are virtual servers in the AWS Cloud, are among the fastest EC2 instances we have ever tested, Dennis Sheahan, principal performance engineer at Airbnb, said. In our performance tests performed using Airbnb’s production search workloads, we are seeing improvements of up to 25% over other system architectures of the same generation and up to 20% compared to prior-generation Graviton 4 instances. Especially impressed with P95 latency (the time taken for 95% of search requests to complete) for our critical workloads, helping to provide a consistent experience for Airbnb guests and hosts.
Atlassian, a leader in software development and work management, helps businesses connect teams and boost productivity with AI-powered tools. Paolo Almeida, Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Atlassian, notes that moving Jira to Graviton 5-based M9G instances has delivered 30% higher performance and 20% lower latency than the previous generation, resulting in faster, more efficient experiences for end users of Atlassian’s cloud tools.
Siemens Digital Industries Software helps organizations of all sizes go digital with software, hardware, and services from the Siemens Xcelerator platform. Siemens Calibre Design Solutions offers a full platform for integrated circuit verification and manufacturing design. The future of semiconductor physical verification lies in cloud-enabled high-performance computing, says Juan Rey, senior vice president and general manager at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Our alliance with AWS positions Calibre at the leading edge of this transformation. We’re excited to announce support for Calibre on Arm-based AWS Graviton processors, which deliver 20% performance improvements and more than 30% reduction in compute costs on AWS Graviton compared with other AWS instances. Early AWS Graviton 5 testing shows an additional 30% boost, unlocking faster verification and shorter time-to-market for our customers.
For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations across finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. We’ve been working closely with AWS on running SAP and cloud on AWS Graviton since 2023 and have seen notable performance enhancements with each new Graviton generation, said Stefan Bauerle, Senior Vice President and Head of SAP HANA and persistence at SAP. With AWS Graviton 5-based Amazon EC2 M9G instances, we’ve observed a stunning 35% to 60% increase in the performance of our OLTP queries on SAP HANA cloud. A phenomenal progress in a single day. Generation
Synopsys leads in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, helping customers quickly develop AI-powered products for over a decade. Since the inception of Annapurna Labs, Synopsys and AWS have collaborated to enable Amazon’s custom silicon development, said Sanjay Bali, senior vice president in strategy and product management at Synopsys. Synopsys EDA tools, such as VCS, PrimeTime, Fusion Compiler, and IC wild data support, run on AWS Graviton and have been critical to the design of the Graviton, Nitro, and Titanium chips. Today, Synopsys and AWS are expanding Graviton to accelerate our customers’ semiconductor innovation. Early results on Graviton 5 show up to 35% runtime gains for Fusion Compiler and PrimeTime. Our joint partner ARM reports up to 40% faster run times for Synopsys VCS on Graviton 5 compared to previous generations.
Graviton 5-based M9G instances designed for general-purpose workloads are now available in preview. C9G instances for compute-intensive workloads and R9G instances for memory-intensive workloads are planned for 2026.
Source: AWS introduces Graviton5: the company’s most powerful and efficient CPU
