Now generally available: Amazon EC2 C8gb instances

Amazon EC2 C8gb Instances Now Available

AWS has announced the general availability of new Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) optimized Amazon EC2 C8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. They provide up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, higher than same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances.

These instances are ideal for scaling the performance and throughput of workloads such as high-performance file systems, while optimizing cost.

Key Features

• Processor: AWS Graviton4
• EBS Bandwidth: Up to 150 Gbps
• Instance Sizes: Up to 24xlarge, including metal-24xl
• Memory: Up to 192 GiB
• Networking Bandwidth: Up to 200 Gbps
• EFA Networking: Supported on 16xlarge, 24xlarge, metal-24xl sizes

Regions Available

• US East (N. Virginia)
• US West (Oregon)

What to do

• Learn more about Amazon EC2 C8gb Instances
• Visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page
• Get started with AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDKs

Source: AWS release notes

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