Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances

Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id Instances Now Available

AWS has launched new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances offer significant performance improvements over previous generations.

Key Features

• Performance: Up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth.
• Specifications: Up to 384 vCPUs, 3TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage.
• Workloads: Optimized for compute-intensive, balanced, and memory-intensive workloads.
• Bandwidth Configuration: Instance Bandwidth Configuration allows flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth.

Regions Available

• US East (N. Virginia)
• US East (Ohio)
• US West (Oregon)
• Europe (Frankfurt) for R8id instances

What to do

• Explore the Amazon EC2 instance type page for more details.
• Purchase instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot instances.

Source: AWS release notes

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