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Amazon EC2 C8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland, London), and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions

Published
April 22, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ec2-c8i-flex-instances-europe-ireland-europe-london-asia-pacific-new-zealand-regions/

Amazon EC2 C8i-flex Instances Now Available

Amazon EC2 C8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Ireland, London) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i-flex instances, with specific workloads seeing even higher gains.

  • NGINX web applications: Up to 60% faster
  • AI deep learning recommendation models: Up to 40% faster
  • Memcached stores: 35% faster

These instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, and enterprise applications. They offer a range of sizes from large to 16xlarge.

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Source: AWS release notes




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