AWS releases Graviton5 chip optimized for AI with 30-40% performance gains

Amazon Web Services released Graviton5 into general availability, the sixth generation of its internally-developed CPU chip for cloud infrastructure. Built by Amazon's Annapurna team and leveraging operational expertise from the world's largest cloud infrastructure, Graviton represents the company's sustained commitment to custom silicon. Graviton has achieved significant adoption, with 98% of AWS's top 1,000 EC2 customers deploying the technology extensively and over 120,000 customers in total using it. Meta has committed to tens of millions of Graviton cores for agentic AI initiatives, with enterprises like Uber and Snowflake also adopting the platform. Graviton5 delivers 30-40% better price-performance versus comparable instances. As AI growth drives explosive CPU demand—particularly for post-training, reinforcement learning, and agentic operations—Graviton becomes increasingly essential for large-scale AI infrastructure.