Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd Instances Powered by New AWS Graviton5 Processors
AWS, Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
AWS launches EC2 M9g and M9gd instances on new Graviton5 processors with up to 25% better performance.
AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by its new AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS describes Graviton5 as its most powerful and energy-efficient processor yet. The instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance than prior Graviton4-based instances, with M9gd variants adding local NVMe SSD storage. The launch underscores AWS's continued investment in custom silicon for general-purpose workloads.