Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region

Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in (Ireland). These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation M6id instances.

M8id instances offer up to 384 vCPUs, 1.5TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage, 3x more than previous generation instances. These instances deliver up to 46% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 30% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than previous sixth-generation instances. Additionally, these instances support Instance Bandwidth Configuration, allowing 25% flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth, allocating resources optimally for each workload.

M8id instances are well-suited for balanced workloads including application servers, microservices, enterprise applications, and small to medium databases.

Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 instance type page.