Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon EC2 I8g Instances Now Available in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka)

AWS has launched Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. These instances provide the best compute performance for storage-intensive workloads, utilizing the latest third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for enhanced storage performance and reduced latency.

Key Features

• Performance: Up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB, 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4g instances.
• Workloads: Optimized for I/O intensive workloads, including transactional databases, real-time analytics, and AI LLM pre-processing.
• Instance Sizes: Available in 10 sizes up to 48xlarge, with 1.5 TiB of memory and 45 TB local instance storage.
• Network Performance: Up to 100 Gbps network performance bandwidth and 60 Gbps dedicated bandwidth for Amazon EBS.

What to do

• Visit the Amazon EC2 I8g instances page for more information.
• Start your Graviton journey on the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page.
• Get started with the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDKs.

Source: AWS release notes

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