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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances

Published
April 27, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/04/amazon-sagemaker-hyperpod-g7e-r5d/

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Updates

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances. This update enhances the infrastructure for developing, training, and deploying foundation models at scale with improved performance and capabilities.

New Instances

  • G7e Instances: Powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, offering up to 2.3x better inference performance than G6e instances. Ideal for deploying large language models, agentic AI, multimodal generative AI, and physical AI models.
  • r5d.16xlarge Instances: Provides 64 vCPUs, 512 GB of memory, and 5 x 600 GB NVMe SSD instance storage. Suitable for distributed training data preprocessing, large-scale feature engineering, and memory-heavy orchestration services.

Availability

G7e instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (Oregon). r5d.16xlarge instances are available in all regions where Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is offered.

Source: AWS release notes




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