[Digital Today reporter Dae-geon Seok] AMD expanded its portfolio last year by supplying large volumes of its EPYC series CPUs to global cloud service companies. AMD on Jan. 28 disclosed the status of EPYC adoption by major cloud companies in 2025. AMD said Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure expanded EPYC-based portfolios to meet rising demand for AI and cloud computing.

Amazon assessed that EPYC-based instances deliver the highest x86 performance in the AWS cloud. AWS has steadily expanded the related lineup since first introducing EPYC-based instances in 2018. In 2025, it rolled out a fifth-generation EPYC-based EC2 lineup.

Google Cloud is operating C4D, N4D, H4D and G4 virtual machine (VM) lineups equipped with fifth-generation EPYC processors. The C4D VM increased web server throughput by up to 80 percent compared with the previous generation. The N4D VM improved price-to-performance by up to 3.5 times in web serving tasks compared with the previous N2D. The H4D VM dedicated to HPC provides performance of more than 12,000 gigaflops per node and memory bandwidth of more than 950GB/s, based on Google tests.

Microsoft Azure last year unveiled the Dasv7, Easv7 and Fasv7 VM lineups. These products improved web server application performance by up to 130 percent between generations. The HBv5 VM for HPC workloads provides memory bandwidth of 6.6TB/s. The storage-optimised Laosv4 and Lasv4 VM lineups are equipped with low-latency local NVMe storage. Azure also launched the NVads V710 v5 GPU-accelerated VM for graphics-intensive work and the DCasv6 and ECasv6 VMs for confidential computing.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure introduced E6 virtual machines and bare-metal instances based on fifth-generation EPYC processors. Oracle Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database also incorporate fifth-generation EPYC to support data-intensive enterprise workloads.

An AMD official said, "Since re-entering the server CPU market in 2017, we have continuously expanded market share, and are laying the groundwork for future growth in the cloud compute segment in 2026."