Intel® Cloud Computing Solutions
Optimize your IT infrastructure with cloud services running on the latest Intel® technology to help reduce costs, streamline AI integration, and improve data security.
A More Cost-Effective Cloud Is Here
Meet the challenges of a quickly changing digital landscape while optimizing your IT spend. The latest Intel® cloud computing solutions deliver cost-effective performance for a wide range of use cases and requirements.
Lower Costs, Maximize Returns
Refreshing to cloud instances with the latest Intel® Xeon® processors can help optimize your bottom line. Higher throughput for popular workloads helps contribute to lower costs, with better performance per virtual CPU (vCPU) compared to the competition.1
More AI Performance and Flexibility
The latest Intel® Xeon® processors deliver leadership performance for AI inference2 with built-in AI acceleration that avoids the need for instances with specialized hardware. Mainstream AI frameworks are already optimized for Intel® Xeon® processors, helping you maximize impact per dollar spent in the cloud.
Open Your Cloud to Innovation
Our open source approach and broad ecosystem give you more options and choice for IT cloud solutions. Wide adoption and interoperability also help ensure Intel-based instances work seamlessly with what you already have for your constantly evolving business.
Strengthen Cloud Security and Compliance
Reduce attack risks while strengthening your threat response and compliance with cloud instances employing the latest Intel® technology. Intel® Security Engines add layers of protection to your cloud data while giving you more control over who has access.
Intel® Cloud Computing Solutions
The latest data center technologies from Intel can help you optimize costs and maximize the benefits of cloud technology while enabling fast AI deployment and adding more layers of security for your company’s data.
Cloud Solutions Built for AI Performance
Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with Performance cores (P-cores) are designed for AI. They outperform the competition on popular AI workloads, like LLM-powered chatbots and automated summarization.3 The latest Intel® Xeon® processors not only enhance inference in the cloud, they also excel at data prep and other AI tasks, such as data preprocessing, to ensure exceptional performance throughout your AI pipeline. For intensive workloads, Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerators offer powerful, yet flexible, inference with an open platform.
Up to
3x
higher AI inferencing performance on Intel® Xeon® 6 processors vs. previous generation3
Up to
8800MT/s
MRDIMMs for memory-bound workloads on Intel® Xeon® 6900 processors with P-cores
Up to
50%
higher AI performance with one-third fewer cores on Intel® Xeon® 6787P vs. AMD EPYC 97554
Up to
3x
higher AI inferencing performance on Intel® Xeon® 6 processors vs. previous generation3
Up to
8800MT/s
MRDIMMs for memory-bound workloads on Intel® Xeon® 6900 processors with P-cores
Up to
50%
higher AI performance with one-third fewer cores on Intel® Xeon® 6787P vs. AMD EPYC 97554
Get the Power to Save in the Cloud
Intel helps you maximize cloud performance or do more with what you already have. Intel® Xeon® 6 processors provide more than 2x better performance than the previous generation3 to help achieve greater cost savings in the cloud. Intel® Xeon® processors also beat the competition in both performance and performance per dollar for vCPU workloads.1 For greater workload flexibility and scalability, Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI Accelerators enable cost-efficient AI inference without vendor lock-in.
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Enhance agility with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
Up to
5.96x
performance per dollar for ResNet-50 on cloud instances powered by Intel® Xeon® processors vs. AMD1
Up to
2.54x
performance per dollar for NGINX on cloud instances powered by Intel® Xeon® processors vs. AMD1
Up to
1.7x
performance per dollar with Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators vs. NVIDIA H1005
Up to
5.96x
performance per dollar for ResNet-50 on cloud instances powered by Intel® Xeon® processors vs. AMD1
Up to
2.54x
performance per dollar for NGINX on cloud instances powered by Intel® Xeon® processors vs. AMD1
Up to
1.7x
performance per dollar with Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators vs. NVIDIA H1005
Cloud Computing Security at the Silicon Level
Protect your cloud infrastructure from the ground up. Intel offers enhanced, hardware-level security features that accelerate encryption and help isolate your workloads in multitenant cloud environments. Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) helps create enclaves for total privacy and the ability to share data without exposing it, and Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (Intel® TDX) maximizes cloud confidentiality by enabling hardware-isolated virtual machines (VMs).
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No. 1
Intel ranks higher than AMD and Nvidia in product security assurance.6
96%
vulnerabilities discovered and mitigated through Intel’s proactive product security assurance efforts in 2024.6
No. 1
Intel ranks higher than AMD and Nvidia in product security assurance.6
96%
vulnerabilities discovered and mitigated through Intel’s proactive product security assurance efforts in 2024.6
Get More from Your Cloud Use Cases
Intel offers a host of advantages for nearly any cloud workload. Make your cloud infrastructure more efficient, secure, and valuable for your business.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Get fast performance for rapidly growing cloud workloads like GenAI with Intel® Xeon® processors with P-cores, Intel® AI Engines, and Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerators.
- Use cases: Inference, fine-tuning (Gaudi only), agentic AI, chatbots, productivity assistants, RAG, machine learning
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Intel® Xeon® processors with P-cores feature built-in matrix engines and integrated AI accelerators that boost vector-based computation performance for intensive cloud workloads.
- Use cases: Modeling and simulation, computer-aided engineering (CAE)
Data and Analytics
Intel® In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (Intel® IAA) 2.0 speeds up data retrieval and boosts cloud database performance while also reducing the CPU core resources needed.
- Use cases: Customer relationship management (CRM) and database systems, in-memory analytics
Infrastructure and Storage
Intel® Xeon® 6 processors offer high density for VMs, low total cost of ownership (TCO) and power consumption, and storage engines that improve throughput.
- Use cases: Virtualization, storage, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
Networking
Scale cloud services for more users and use cases with the exceptional performance for media transcoding offered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with E-cores.
- Use cases: Content delivery networks (CDNs), media
Data Security
Enable data sharing while maintaining total privacy with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) and improve encryption performance with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT).
- Use cases: Federated learning, confidential computing, cryptography
Web, App, and Microservices
Improve the responsiveness, speed, and capabilities of cloud-based web services with extensive optimizations and purpose-built performance from Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with E-cores.
- Use cases: Consumer apps, web hosting
Get Started
Intel can help you get the most out of your cloud migration and management strategy. We provide extensive support to help you improve your cloud results along with industry collaborations that help control costs and improve visibility.
Reduce TCO with Cloud Optimization
Boost ROI with cloud optimization recommendations that help rightsize instance selection and improve efficiency.
Choosing a Cloud Migration Strategy
As you move data into the cloud, every choice has an impact on your business. Intel can help you streamline and optimize the migration process.
Optimize Utilization with Orchestration
Intel can help you boost manageability, efficiency, and coordination in cloud environments. The right orchestration helps improve resource allocation and end-user experiences.
Get Results with Intel in the Cloud
Choose instances from leading CSPs enabled by the latest Intel® processors to unlock exceptional efficiency and enhanced security across a wide range of workload targets.
Browse More Cloud Resources
Get the information and tools you need to optimize your cloud infrastructure for improved results and risk mitigation.
Product and Performance Information
As measured by Intel-powered Google Cloud C4 VMs vs. Google Cloud VMs powered by AMD or previous-generation processors across key workloads: SPECrate®2017: intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/837794/get-faster-performance-for-compute-intensive-workloads-at-a-better-value.html; NGINX: intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/837806/choosing-gcp-c4-vms-can-boost-your-nginx-web-server-performance-and-deliver-strong-value.html; MySQL: intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/837848/balance-speed-and-value-for-mysql-workloads-with-google-cloud-c4-vms.html; Redis: intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/837852/keep-your-customers-engaged-without-breaking-the-bank-with-high-performing-c4-vms.html; ResNet-50: intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/837789/improve-ai-performance-and-value-by-selecting-google-cloud-c4-vms-for-bert-and-resnet50-applications.html.
See [9A3] and [9A7] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.
See [9A2] and [9A7] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.
See [7A220] at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.
Based on reported numbers per GPU (github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/blob/main/docs/source/performance/perf-overview.md) vs. Intel® Gaudi® 3 measurements for LLAMA3-8B, LLAMA2-70B, Intel® Gaudi® software release 1.18, October 18, 2024. Pricing estimates based on publicly available information and Intel internal analysis. Results may vary. For the latest Intel® Gaudi® 3 performance data, see: intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/platform/gaudi/model-performance.html.
As measured by ABI Research. For more information, see the Intel® 2024 Product Security Report: intel.com/securityreport.