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Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. These custom processors, exclusive to AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers. C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are an excellent choice for compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology, which facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. To learn more, visit the EC2 C7i instances Page.

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