Oracle E7 Cloud Instances Will Use 6th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Oct 28, 2026
Oracle will use 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors in its OCI Compute E7 instances. Oracle Acceleron network cards will also incorporate AMD Pensando data processing units.

AMD said in a press release that 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors will power OCI Compute E7 instances from Oracle. The companies presented the expanded cloud infrastructure collaboration at Oracle AI World 2026.

The E7 instances will support agent orchestration, concurrent agent sandboxes, retrieval services, in memory caches, web services, APIs, and enterprise applications. E7 Acceleron Standard virtual machines will offer configurable compute and memory capacity.

Oracle Acceleron converged network interface cards for AMD compute and accelerator instances will incorporate AMD Pensando data processing units. The units handle networking, storage, and security functions in hardware, leaving more host CPU capacity available for customer applications.

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