Plug into AWS and Feel the Power of Intel® in the Cloud
Our newest Intel® Xeon® processors are tailored for your experience on AWS EC2. 8th Generation Intel-based instances deliver up to 20% performance improvement over the previous generation. Learn more in this interview with Dave Brown (AWS VP of Compute & ML Services) and Lip-Bu Tan (Intel Corporation CEO).
Come see us at Supercomputing 2025
Join us in St. Louis, MO (Nov. 16-21) at both the Intel and AWS booths and other joint networking events to learn about cloud solutions with AWS EC2 and Intel® Xeon® 6 processor-based instances.
AWS re:Invent 2025 – Join Us!
Meet us at AWS re:Invent (Dec 1 – 5, 2025) to discover how you can deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client, with our extensive hardware and software portfolio designed for versatility. Business outcomes you require, from the brand you trust. Intel. Providing AI for Each Moment.
New Amazon EC2 8th Generation Instances
EC2 instances powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 technology are now available.
EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
This member of the EC2 High Memory family is intended for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads such as SAP HANA.
Beginning Your AI Solution Starts with Intel on AWS
- Open and flexible options
- CPU-driven AI solutions
- Simple code development and migration
ai.io
With Amazon and Intel solutions, the aiScout application connects prospective athletes with professional teams faster than ever before.
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.
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.
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. Learn more, or click on each section below for specific instances.
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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Specifications for general purpose instances ›
- M8i and M8i-Flex: 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- M7i and M7i-Flex: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
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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Specifications for compute optimized instances ›
- C8i and C8i-Flex: 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- C7i and C7i-Flex: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
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.
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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Specifications for memory optimized instances ›
- R8i and R8i-flex: 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- R7i: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- R7iz: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- U7i and U7inh: 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- X2idn, X2iedn, and X2iezn: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
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.
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Specifications for storage optimized instances ›
- I7i and I7ie: 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- I4i: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- D3: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
- D3en: Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
High-performance computing
Ideal for applications that benefit from high-performance processors, including large, complex simulations and deep learning workloads.
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Specifications for high-performance computing instances ›
- HPC6id: 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
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.
DXC Luxoft Migrates EarlyResolution Software to AWS, Increasing Performance and Scale for Financial Industry Customers
Hosting its application on Amazon EC2 instances with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors paves the way for future EarlyResolution enhancements like GenAI integration.
Technology Innovation Institute Democratizes GenAI in Public, Private, and Academic Settings Through its Open-Source Falcon LLMs
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and Intel collaborate to optimize Falcon 2 11B LLMs for Amazon instances featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, making GenAI deployment faster and more affordable.
US Census Bureau Migrates its Legacy Systems to an AI-Ready Cloud Solution, Saving Time and Cost
The US Census Bureau, major companies, Amazon, and Intel architect a solution that accelerates and simplifies secure data collection and reporting.
Hypori Lets U.S. Military Personnel Use Their Own Mobile Devices in Compliance with Government Security Mandates
Supported by backend bare metal Amazon EC2 instances and 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, Hypori provides a cost-effective solution to virtualize work devices, keeping work-related data protected.