Announcing Amazon EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances on second-generation AWS Outposts racks

AWS is announcing local support for the latest generation of x86-powered Amazon EC2 instances on second-generation AWS Outposts racks, including C8i compute-optimized instances, M8i general-purpose instances, and R8i memory-optimized instances. These new instances deliver 20% better performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to the C7i, M7i, and R7i instances on second-generation Outposts racks. In addition, C8i, M8i, and R8i instances on second-generation Outposts racks deliver 20% more compute capacity than C7i, M7i, and R7i instances within the same rack space and power draw, enabling better space and energy efficiency for your on-premises workloads.

C8i, M8i, and R8i instances on second-generation Outposts racks are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS and are ideal for a broad range of on-premises workloads requiring enhanced performance, such as larger databases, more memory-intensive applications, advanced real-time big data analytics, high-performance video encoding and streaming, and CPU-based edge inference with more sophisticated machine learning (ML) models.

To learn more about second-generation Outposts racks, refer to the Outposts racks product page and the user guide. For the most updated list of countries and territories and the AWS Regions where second-generation Outposts racks are supported, check out the Outposts rack FAQs page.