Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of new EC2 instances featuring 2.5 GHz AMD EPYC 7000 series processors that are variants of Amazon EC2’s general purpose (M5 ) and memory optimized (R5 ) instance families. The AMD-based instances provide additional options for customers who are looking to achieve a 10% cost savings on their Amazon EC2 compute environment for a variety of workloads. M5a instances are ideal for business-critical applications, web and application servers, back-end servers for enterprise applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, and app development environments. R5a instances are ideal for high performance databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, mid-size in-memory databases, real time big data analytics, and other enterprise applications.