Announcing new high performance computing Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances

Elastic Fabric Adapter ยท 2026-02-16

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Technical Details

Regions us-east-2, eu-north-1
Cost Impact Decrease
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your HPC workloads to utilize Hpc8a instances, featuring 192 cores, 768 GiB memory, and 300 Gbps EFA network bandwidth, to achieve up to 42% higher memory bandwidth and improve performance for memory-intensive simulations.

For Platform Teams

Adopt Hpc8a instances to integrate advanced HPC capabilities into your architecture, leveraging their superior performance metrics and EFA network bandwidth to scale large-scale HPC workloads efficiently.

For Executives

Evaluate deploying Hpc8a instances to accelerate compute-intensive workloads with up to 40% higher performance and 25% better price performance, optimizing costs and enhancing competitive positioning in the HPC market.

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