Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X8g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instances. They have the best price performance among EC2 X-series instances, and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, in-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time big data analytics, real-time caching servers, and memory-intensive containerized applications.

X8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 3TiB) than Graviton2-based X2gd instances. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support is offered on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, and bare metal sizes, and Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express support is available on instance sizes larger than 12xlarge.

What to do

• Learn more about Amazon EC2 X8g Instances
• Migrate workloads to Graviton-based instances with the AWS Graviton Fast Start program
• Get started with the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs

Source: AWS release notes

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