Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS GovCloud (US East, US West) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, they deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. They use the latest third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, providing up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security. Designed for I/O-intensive workloads requiring rapid data access and real-time latency from storage, I8g instances excel at handling transactional and real-time distributed databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, HBase, and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They are also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse, and AI LLM pre-processing for training. Available in 11 sizes up to 48xlarge, with 1.5 TiB of memory and 45 TB of local instance storage, they deliver up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).