The new E6 Standard instances from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offer up to double the performance per cost compared to the previous generation, according to internal tests.
On March 31, 2025, AMD and Oracle announced a new milestone in their technological collaboration with the incorporation of AMD EPYC™ 5th generation processors into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offering. The new Compute E6 Standard instances, available in both bare metal and virtual versions, are now available in multiple regions worldwide and promise significant improvements in performance and energy efficiency for intensive and general-purpose workloads.
According to tests conducted by Oracle, these new instances deliver up to double the performance per dollar compared to the E5, marking a qualitative leap for businesses looking to optimize their cloud infrastructures.
EPYC 9005: A Processor Designed to Lead
The 5th Gen AMD EPYC (9005 series), developed with advanced 3 and 4-nanometer manufacturing technology, have been recognized as the best server processors currently available for enterprise, artificial intelligence, and cloud environments. They stand out for offering:
- The highest thread density in the industry.
- More DDR5 memory channels and greater bandwidth.
- Up to five times more L3 cache per core.
- Support for more PCIe Gen5 lanes.
- Advanced security technologies such as SEV-SNP (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) and memory encryption.
This translates into over 500 world performance records, including leadership in enterprise Java workloads, high-performance computing (HPC) applications, and AI-specific benchmarks like TPCx-AI.
Oracle Committed to Efficiency and Scalability
With these improvements, Oracle reinforces its commitment to providing its customers with high-performance cloud infrastructures at competitive costs. Donald Lu, Senior Vice President of OCI Software Development, stated, “With the new E6 Standard instances powered by AMD EPYC, we’re offering an unmatched combination of computing power, scalability, and efficiency for the most complex workloads.”
These instances are already operational in key regions such as US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix), US Central (Chicago), Germany (Frankfurt), and the UK (London). The company has confirmed that deployment will continue in other regions over the coming months.
A Further Boost to Open Cloud
Dan McNamara, Senior Vice President of AMD’s Server Division, emphasized that “the rapid adoption of EPYC in the cloud space demonstrates our ability to deliver innovative solutions that allow our partners to create highly competitive offerings. The combination of OCI’s flexible infrastructure and our processors’ performance accelerates the deployment of demanding workloads while optimizing costs.”
With over a thousand cloud instances powered by AMD EPYC available from major industry providers, the announcement with Oracle reinforces the trend toward adopting open, efficient, and scalable architectures in response to the growing demand for cloud services and AI-based applications.
This advancement is part of AMD’s strategy to lead the data center ecosystem and provide a balance of power, efficiency, and security, which are essential for addressing the current challenges of cloud computing.