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Amazon EC2 C6in instances now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

Amazon EC2 launches sixth-generation C6in network-optimized instances in the Taipei region, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and enhanced performance for various high-demand applications

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. These sixth-generation network-optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, which is 2x more than comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use C6in instances to scale performance for applications such as network virtual appliances (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers), Telco 5G User Plane Function (UPF), data analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), and CPU-based AI/ML workloads. C6in instances are available in 10 different sizes with up to 128 vCPUs, including bare metal sizes. They provide up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth and up to 400K IOPS. The 32xlarge and metal sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking. C6in instances are available in multiple AWS Regions including US, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, South America, Canada, AWS GovCloud, and Mexico

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