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AMD announced the expansion of the AMD EPYC™ processor footprint within the cloud ecosystem, powering the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) E4 Dense instances. These new instances are part of the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution offerings, enable customers to build and run a hybrid-cloud environment for their VMware® based workloads.
The new E4 Dense instances, which are based on AMD EPYC 3rd Gen processors, enhance AMD EPYC's footprint at OCI and are designed to serve memory and storage-intensive VMware workloads. The E4 Dense instances take advantage of EPYC processors' core density and performance capabilities to give customers a quick path to the cloud, enabling similar performance and advanced security features for on-premises VMware workloads by enabling the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualisation (SEV) security feature.
“We’ve experienced the fantastic capabilities of AMD EPYC processors with our E3 and E4 compute instances, and now with E4 Dense, we’re expanding EPYC into the hybrid cloud environment for our customers that need flexibility for size, storage and memory performance for VMware solutions,” said Bev Crair, senior vice president, compute, Oracle. “In simple terms, the E4 Dense instances and AMD EPYC processors help customers take full advantage of industry-leading OCI compute shapes with the same familiar and certified VMware tooling on-premises, providing a more effective path to the public cloud.”
“AMD EPYC processors provide VMware customers with outstanding performance and enhanced security for VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and other VMware offerings,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “With the support of EPYC processors on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, our customers can get the capabilities and experience they’ve had on-premises, in a flexible and performant cloud.”
“AMD EPYC processors continue to showcase leading performance, versatility and capabilities across numerous types of cloud workloads and environments,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, EPYC Business, AMD. “Now, with 3rd Gen EPYC processors powering this new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution offering, we are opening the door for our customers to create a hybrid cloud offering that provides impressive performance for memory and storage intense VMware workloads, while continuing to deliver the flexibility and security capabilities they have come to expect from EPYC in the cloud.”
AMD EPYC Processors Enabling Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Customers can now construct a hybrid cloud environment tailored to their exact workload with E4 Dense and VMware, which offers 32-, 64-, and 128-core configurations with 3.5x the memory and 3.5x the storage per host when compared to competing options.
More information about the new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution E4 Dense shape can be found on the OCI blog, where TIM Brasil discusses how the company switched to an EPYC processor-based instance and saw a 25% increase in customer billing system processing speed.
The use of AMD EPYC processors for diverse workloads continues to expand as more cloud service providers are using EPYC processors to power their customers most demanding and intense workloads.