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Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region

Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and optimized storage for I/O-intensive workloads

AWS is announcing the availability of high-performance, storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Equipped with 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances are designed for x86-based storage-optimized workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance and real-time latency for accessing small to medium-sized datasets. The torn write prevention feature supports block sizes up to 16KB, helping customers eliminate database performance bottlenecks. I7i instances are available in eleven sizes-nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal sizes-delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth.

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