AWS Launches Graviton5 Chip
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that the AWS Graviton5 processor is now generally available to all customers, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than the previous generation for agentic AI workloads. The chip integrates 192 cores per processor and achieves 33% lower inter‑core latency, and it is engineered for real‑time reasoning, code generation, and multi‑step task orchestration.
The Graviton5‑powered Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, which were previewed at re:Invent 2025, are now accessible through standard EC2 adoption paths. M9g instances provide 35% faster web‑application performance, 35% faster machine‑learning inference, and 30% faster database workloads compared with the prior generation. M9gd instances offer up to 11.4 TB of NVMe SSD storage and deliver 30% higher input/output operations per second than the previous generation.
Both instance types are built on the sixth‑generation AWS Nitro System, incorporating the Nitro Isolation Engine that delivers mathematically proven isolation between virtual machines. The Graviton5 chip supports DDR5‑8800 memory and PCIe Gen 6 connectivity.
Meta has committed to deploying tens of millions of Graviton cores for its agentic AI initiatives since the preview period, while Uber and Snowflake are also deploying Graviton for their agentic workloads, joining more than 120,000 customers already building on the platform.
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