Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon EC2 I8g Instances Now Available in Additional Regions

AWS has made Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances offer enhanced performance for storage-intensive workloads, utilizing the latest third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for improved real-time 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.
• Workloads: Optimized for I/O intensive tasks, including 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: Up to 100 Gbps network performance bandwidth and 60 Gbps dedicated bandwidth for 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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