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Region•Oct 9, 2026

Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2AWS · Compute

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gd instances are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage.

R8gd instances are available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes.

To learn more, see R8gd instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

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