Contributors:
Lucas Melo, Cloud Solutions Architect, Intel
Mihika Nerurkar, Cloud Solutions Architect, Intel
Andrew Kim, Cloud Software Development Engineer, Intel
Overview
Intel has released PostgreSQL Optimized by Intel, now available on the Amazon Marketplace. Check out its impressive, improved efficiency and performance today.
- PostgreSQL Optimized by Intel in the AWS Marketplace
- For additional details please also read the User Guide
Real Results for Real World Applications
In our testing, PostgreSQL 17 was fine-tuned for Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors powering the Amazon m8i/c8i/r8i EC2 instances. By incorporating Intel’s optimizations at every level, from the Linux kernel to the PostgreSQL engine, the AMI delivers up to 2.4x performance gains compared to default PostgreSQL installations, enabling customers to process more transactions, run complex analytics faster, improve application responsiveness, and lower TCO.
Transaction Throughput (New Orders per Minute)
Up to 2.4x performance gains on m8i.2xlarge w/ io1 set to 12,500 IOPS. Tested in August 2025
(See configuration details)
If you’re new to the subject, an AMI is an Amazon Machine Image, which is used when launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, providing a pre-configured virtual machine (VM) complete with an operating system, applications, and optimizations. This fundamental building block for AWS deployments enables you to accelerate deployment, simplify operations, create consistent environments, and scale rapidly for enterprises running PostgreSQL in the cloud. Intel takes it a step further by delivering a version of PostgreSQL that has been fine-tuned to leverage Intel technology, resulting in impressive performance improvements.
More Than Performance, Lower TCO
One key benefit of optimizing with Intel is improved workload efficiency, allowing you to get more out of the same infrastructure. In many cases, this can enable “instance right-sizing” or achieving the performance of a larger instance class on a smaller one, helping reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) without compromising performance.
AMI deployment has been fully automated, allowing you to launch a pre-hardened, performance-tested PostgreSQL instance directly from the AWS Marketplace and into production in minutes. This saves the time normally used for complex OS hardening, package installations, and iterative tuning, which typically take days or weeks to complete.
Summary
The launch of PostgreSQL on AWS optimized by Intel marks a significant step forward in database performance optimization for cloud workloads. With pre-configured tuning, industry-leading performance gains, global availability, and simplified deployment, this joint solution from Intel and AWS empowers you to run PostgreSQL workloads with unparalleled speed, efficiency, and reliability.
Get Started Today
PostgreSQL on AWS optimized by Intel can be deployed in all AWS regions today that have Intel’s 8i i instances available.
If you’ve been using default AMIs, now’s the time to level up your PostgreSQL performance. Get ready to deploy faster, run more efficiently, and get more out of your cloud investment and see the performance gains for yourself.
- Try the new PostgreSQL Optimized by Intel on AWS Marketplace now
- For usage instructions, download the User Guide
Configuration Details
HammerDB 4 TPC-C benchmark testing on Ubuntu 22.04 with PostgreSQL 17 measured transaction throughput (NOPM) across AWS EC2 on m8i.2xlarge Instance using 64 virtual users and 40 warehouses, comparing default configurations against Intel-optimized settings to demonstrate a consistent 2.4x performance improvement.
Notices and Disclaimers
Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more on the Performance Index site.
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Your costs and results may vary.
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