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Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview)

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December 2, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/aws-amazon-ec2-m8azn-preview

New Amazon EC2 M8azn Instances Available for Preview

Starting today, new general purpose high-frequency high-network Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are available for preview. These instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC processors, offering the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. The M8azn instances offer up to 2x compute performance versus previous generation M5zn instances and 24% higher performance than M8a instances.

These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, providing efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multitenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Ideal for gaming, high-performance computing, high-frequency trading, CI/CD, and simulation modeling for various industries.

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Source: AWS release notes




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