Elastic Container Instance:Create an AMD-based elastic container instance

Supported AMD-based ECS instance families

You can specify AMD-based instance types of Elastic Compute Service (ECS) to create AMD-based elastic container instances. AMD-based elastic container instances are powered by AMD EPYC^TM ROME processors. These instances offload a large number of virtualization features to dedicated hardware with the use of the SHENLONG architecture to provide predictable and consistent ultra-high performance and reduce virtualization overheads. AMD-compatible elastic container instances suit the following scenarios: video encoding and decoding, web frontend servers, frontend servers of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, scenarios where large volumes of packets are received and transmitted, and scenarios where applications such as DevOps applications are developed and tested.

The following AMD-based ECS instance families are supported:

• g7a and g6a, general-purpose instance families. The instance families include a variety of instance types, such as ecs.g7a.large and ecs.g6a.large.

• c7a and c6a, compute-optimized instance families. The instance families include a variety of instance types, such as ecs.c7a.large and ecs.c6a.large.

• r7a and r6a, memory-optimized instance families. The instance families include a variety of instance types, such as ecs.r7a.large and ecs.r6a.large.

For more information, see:

• ECS instance types available for each region

• ECS instance families

Configuration description

When you call the CreateContainerGroup operation to create an elastic container instance, you can use the InstanceType parameter to specify an AMD-based ECS instance type. The following table describes the parameter. For more information, see CreateContainerGroup.