Introducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 C8ine and Amazon EC2 M8ine instances, powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS. These also instances feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. C8ine and M8ine instances deliver up to 43% higher performance compared to previous generation C6in and M6in instances.

C8ine and M8ine instances offer up to 2.5 times higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior generation network optimized instances. They provide up to 2x higher network throughput for traffic going through Internet gateways compared to existing C6in and M6in network optimized instances.

Both instance families are designed for security and network virtual appliances, including virtual firewalls, load balancers, and Telco 5G UPF workloads.

Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo), while Amazon EC2 M8ine instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon). C8ine and M8ine instances are available via Savings Plans and On-Demand instances. For more information, visit the Amazon EC2 C8i instance and Amazon EC2 M8i instance pages.