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Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in the Europe (Paris), Africa (Cape Town), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances.

Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. C8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

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