AWS Graviton5 generally available with M9g instances

2026-06-10 · Publisher : AWS · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

AWS declares its EC2 M9g and M9gd instances on Graviton5, 192 cores per chip, generally available. AWS claims up to 25% more compute performance than the previous generation, and Meta commits to tens of millions of cores.

### Background On 10 June 2026, AWS announces general availability of Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, based on the Graviton5 processor. The chip had been presented in preview at re:Invent in December 2025. It becomes available to all customers through the usual EC2 paths. ### Key facts - 192 cores per chip, an L3 cache five times larger, DDR5-8800 memory and PCIe Gen 6 support. - According to AWS, M9g instances offer up to 25% more compute performance than the previous generation: 35% on web applications, 35% on machine learning inference and 30% on databases. - Inter-core latency reduced by 33% thanks to a denser design. - M9gd instances offer up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD and 30% more IOPS. - Sixth-generation Nitro System, with the Nitro Isolation Engine, a formally verified security component that provides mathematically proven isolation between virtual machines (AWS wording). - More than 120,000 customers already use Graviton; Meta has committed to deploying tens of millions of cores, and Uber and Snowflake are adopting it for agentic workloads. ### Why it matters Graviton has existed since 2018 and remains one of the oldest families of in-house processors among hyperscalers. For operations teams, moving to Graviton remains a cost-saving route, provided workloads are recompiled and tested for Arm. General availability opens evaluation of the fifth generation for general-purpose workloads. ### Takeaway Graviton5 is available: AWS's in-house processors move up a generation for general-purpose compute.

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