Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 X8i Instances Now Available in Ireland and Mumbai Regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances.

X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Compared to X2i instances, X8i instances offer up to 50% higher SAPS performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, 88% faster Memcached performance, and 46% faster AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes, from large to 96xlarge, including two bare metal options.

What to do

• Visit the AWS Management Console to get started.
• Purchase X8i instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances.
• For more information, visit the X8i instances page.

Source: AWS release notes

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