Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) region

Amazon EC2 X8g Instances in Europe (Stockholm)

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X8g instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared to other Graviton4-based instances. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as EDA, in-memory databases, relational databases, real-time big data analytics, caching servers, and memory-intensive containerized applications.

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

X8g instances are currently available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm).

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 CLI, and AWS SDKs.

Source: AWS release notes

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