Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are available in additional regions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors feature up to 384 vCPUs, 3TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage and deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation C6id, M6id, and R6id instances. Starting today, C8id and M8id instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, with M8id also available in Europe (Spain) region. Additionally, R8id instances are now available in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions.

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.

C8id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, distributed analytics, ad serving, video encoding, and gaming servers. M8id instances are well-suited for balanced workloads including application servers, microservices, enterprise applications, and small to medium databases. R8id instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, large in-memory caches, and scientific computing applications.

C8id, M8id and R8id instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. M8id and R8id instances are additionally available in Europe (Spain) region. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 instance type page.