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Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Published
October 9, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-ec2-r8g-instances-additional-aws-regions

Amazon EC2 R8gd Instances Now Available in Additional Regions

Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They offer up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics compared to comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are ideal for applications requiring high-speed, low latency local storage.

Each instance is available in 12 different sizes, providing up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, offering greater flexibility in optimizing workloads. These instances also support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes.

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Source: AWS release notes

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