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Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions

Published
January 21, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-ec2-c8gn-instances-additional-regions

Amazon EC2 C8gn Instances Now Available in Additional Regions

Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in the AWS Region Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland, London), and Canada West (Calgary). These new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based C7gn instances and feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth.

C8gn instances are optimized for network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU-based AI/ML inference. They offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 384 GiB of memory, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon EBS. EFA networking is supported on specific sizes, enabling lower latency and improved cluster performance.

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Source: AWS release notes




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