Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

AWS has introduced Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. These instances are designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads and are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. They offer up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance compared to existing I3en instances.

• Compute Performance: Up to 40% better compute performance
• Price Performance: Up to 20% better price performance
• Storage Density: 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)

I7ie instances are ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage with high random read/write performance at very low latency consistency to access large data sets. They are available in 9 different virtual sizes.

Source: AWS release notes

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