Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, deliver up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in the AWS Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage-optimized Amazon EC2 instances. They utilize third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs and local NVMe storage, providing up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB compared to previous generation Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances. I8ge instances offer up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to Im4gn instances. These storage-optimized instances provide up to 120TB of local NVMe storage and are ideal for workloads requiring rapid local storage with high random read/write performance and consistently low latency for accessing large datasets. Available in eleven different sizes including two metal sizes, they deliver up to 180 Gbps of network bandwidth and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), ensuring fast and efficient data transfer for the most demanding applications.