Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances Availability

AWS is announcing the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in three new regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Paris). These instances are designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance compared to existing I3en instances.

Key Features

• Compute Performance: Up to 40% better compute performance
• Price Performance: 20% better price performance
• Storage: Up to 120TB local NVMe storage density
• vCPUs and Memory: Up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances
• Real-time Storage Performance: Up to 65% better real-time storage performance
• Storage I/O Latency: Up to 50% lower storage I/O latency
• Storage I/O Latency Variability: 65% lower storage I/O latency variability
• Network Bandwidth: Up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth
• EBS Bandwidth: 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

What to do

• Explore the I7ie instances page for more details.

Source: AWS release notes

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