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Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo)

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October 8, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-ec2-i7ie-instances-available-in-aws-sao-paulo/

Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances Available in AWS South America (São Paulo) Region

AWS has introduced Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS South America (São Paulo) 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.

Key Features

  • 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
  • Storage Performance: Up to 65% better real-time storage performance, 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability
  • Network Bandwidth: Up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps for Amazon EBS

What to do

Source: AWS release notes

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