Achieve Breakthrough Performance, Lower Costs, and Boost Sustainability with the 5th Generation Graviton Chip
AWS has officially introduced Graviton5, its most advanced custom processor designed to tackle the growing scale and complexity of modern cloud workloads. This fifth-generation chip fundamentally addresses the persistent challenge organizations face: achieving faster performance, lower costs, and meeting sustainability commitments without compromise. Graviton5 delivers up to 25% better compute performance than the previous generation, setting a new standard for price-performance across a broad range of applications.
The Graviton5 processor is built on the latest 3nm technology and is optimized from the silicon level up for AWS use cases. This deep integration results in measurable gains across key areas:
- Core Density and Low Latency: he new EC2 M9g instances powered by Graviton5 offer the highest CPU core density in Amazon EC2—up to 192 cores in a single package. This dense, efficient design is critical for demanding workloads.
- Massive Cache and Memory Improvements: To keep frequently accessed data instantly available, the Graviton5 chip includes significant cache upgrades
- Increased I/O Bandwidth: Graviton5 ensures that data can move in and out of the instance faster than ever
Security remains paramount for AWS. Graviton5 instances are built on the trusted AWS Nitro System, which offloads virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware.
Graviton5 takes security a step further by introducing the Nitro Isolation Engine. This pioneering feature utilizes formal verification, a method that uses mathematical proofs to ensure with mathematical certainty that:
- Your workloads are completely isolated from one another.
- Your workloads are isolated from AWS operators.
This minimal, formally verified codebase establishes a new, mathematically proven standard for cloud security, reinforcing the zero-operator access design.
Pioneering organizations across various industries are already realizing significant performance and cost benefits:
- Airbnb: Observed performance improvements of up to 25% over other system architectures of the same generation and up to 20% compared to Graviton4 for production search workloads, significantly improving P95 latency.
- Atlassian: Saw 30% higher performance and 20% lower latency for Jira on Graviton5-based M9g instances compared to the prior generation.
- SAP: Observed a stunning 35%-60% increase in performance for their OLTP queries on SAP HANA Cloud.
- Siemens EDA: Early testing shows an additional 20%+ performance boost for their Calibre software, building on existing 20% performance improvements over other comparable AWS instances on Graviton4.
Graviton5-based M9g instances for general-purpose workloads are available in preview now. Compute-intensive (C9g) and memory-intensive (R9g) instances are planned for 2026.
