High-performance computing instances
High-performance computing instances are purpose built to offer the best price performance
for running HPC workloads at scale on AWS. These instances are ideal for applications that
benefit from high-performance processors, such as large, complex simulations and deep learning
workloads.
Available sizes
| Instance type |
Available sizes |
| Hpc6a |
hpc6a.48xlarge |
| Hpc6id |
hpc6id.32xlarge |
| Hpc7a |
hpc7a.12xlarge | hpc7a.24xlarge | hpc7a.48xlarge | hpc7a.96xlarge |
| Hpc7g |
hpc7g.4xlarge | hpc7g.8xlarge | hpc7g.16xlarge |
Platform summary
| Instance type |
Hypervisor |
Processor type (architecture) |
Metal instances available |
Dedicated Hosts support |
Spot support |
Hibernation support |
Supported operating systems |
| Hpc6a |
Nitro |
AMD (x86_64) |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
Linux |
| Hpc6id |
Nitro |
Intel (x86_64) |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
Windows | Linux |
| Hpc7a |
Nitro |
AMD (x86_64) |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
Windows | Linux |
| Hpc7g |
Nitro |
AWS Graviton (arm64) |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
Linux |
Performance specifications
| Instance type |
Burstable |
Memory (GiB) |
Processor |
vCPUs |
CPU cores |
Threads per core |
Accelerators |
| Hpc6a |
| hpc6a.48xlarge |
✗ |
384.00 |
AMD EPYC 7R13 |
96 |
96 |
1 |
✗ |
| Hpc6id |
| hpc6id.32xlarge |
✗ |
1024.00 |
Intel Xeon Ice Lake |
64 |
64 |
1 |
✗ |
| Hpc7a |
| hpc7a.12xlarge |
✗ |
768.00 |
AMD EPYC 9R14 |
24 |
24 |
1 |
✗ |
| hpc7a.24xlarge |
✗ |
768.00 |
AMD EPYC 9R14 |
48 |
48 |
1 |
✗ |
| hpc7a.48xlarge |
✗ |
768.00 |
AMD EPYC 9R14 |
96 |
96 |
1 |
✗ |
| hpc7a.96xlarge |
✗ |
768.00 |
AMD EPYC 9R14 |
192 |
192 |
1 |
✗ |
| Hpc7g |
| hpc7g.4xlarge |
✗ |
128.00 |
AWS Graviton3E Processor |
16 |
16 |
1 |
✗ |
| hpc7g.8xlarge |
✗ |
128.00 |
AWS Graviton3E Processor |
32 |
32 |
1 |
✗ |
| hpc7g.16xlarge |
✗ |
128.00 |
AWS Graviton3E Processor |
64 |
64 |
1 |
✗ |
Network specifications
| Instance type |
Baseline / Burst bandwidth (Gbps) |
EFA |
ENA |
ENA Express |
Network cards |
Max. network interfaces |
IP addresses per interface |
IPv6 |
| Hpc6a |
| hpc6a.48xlarge |
100 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
1 |
2 |
50 |
✓ |
| Hpc6id |
| hpc6id.32xlarge |
200 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
2 |
2 |
50 |
✓ |
| Hpc7a |
| hpc7a.12xlarge |
300 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
2 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| hpc7a.24xlarge |
300 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
2 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| hpc7a.48xlarge |
300 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
2 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| hpc7a.96xlarge |
300 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
2 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| Hpc7g |
| hpc7g.4xlarge |
200 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
1 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| hpc7g.8xlarge |
200 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
1 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
| hpc7g.16xlarge |
200 Gigabit |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
1 |
4 |
50 |
✓ |
Amazon EBS specifications
| Instance type |
Baseline / Maximum bandwidth (Mbps) |
Baseline / Maximum throughput (MB/s, 128 KiB I/O) |
Baseline / Maximum IOPS (16 KiB I/O) |
NVMe |
EBS optimization 2 |
| Hpc6a |
| hpc6a.48xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| Hpc6id |
| hpc6id.32xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| Hpc7a |
| hpc7a.12xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| hpc7a.24xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| hpc7a.48xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| hpc7a.96xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| Hpc7g |
| hpc7g.4xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| hpc7g.8xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
| hpc7g.16xlarge 1 |
87.00 / 2085.00 |
10.88 / 260.62 |
500.00 / 11000.00 |
✓ |
default |
1 These instances can support maximum performance for 30 minutes at
least once every 24 hours, after which they revert to their baseline performance.
Other instances can sustain the maximum performance indefinitely. If your workload requires
sustained maximum performance for longer than 30 minutes, use one of these instances.
2 default indicates that instances are enabled
for EBS optimization by default. supported indicates that instances can optionally
be enabled for EBS optimization For more information, see Amazon EBS–optimized instances.
Instance store specifications
| Instance type |
Instance store volumes |
Instance store type |
Read / Write performance (IOPS) |
Needs initialization 1 |
TRIM support 2 |
| Hpc6id |
| hpc6id.32xlarge |
4 x 3800 GB |
NVMe SSD |
2,146,664 / 1,073,336 |
|
✓ |
1 Volumes attached to certain instances suffer a first-write
penalty unless initialized. For more information, see Optimize disk performance for
instance store volumes.
2 For more information, see Instance
store volume TRIM support.
Security specifications
| Instance type |
EBS encryption |
Instance store encryption |
Encryption in transit |
AMD SEV-SNP |
NitroTPM |
Nitro Enclaves |
| Hpc6a |
| hpc6a.48xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✓ |
✗ |
| Hpc6id |
| hpc6id.32xlarge |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✗ |
✓ |
✗ |
| Hpc7a |
| hpc7a.12xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| hpc7a.24xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| hpc7a.48xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| hpc7a.96xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| Hpc7g |
| hpc7g.4xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| hpc7g.8xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
| hpc7g.16xlarge |
✓ |
Instance store not supported |
✓ |
✗ |
✗ |
✗ |
