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Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 introduces M6in and M6idn instances in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and high-performance storage for network-intensive workloads

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These sixth-generation network-optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, which is 2x more than comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function. M6in and M6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, offering up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth and up to 400K IOPS. M6in and M6idn instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 32xlarge and metal sizes. M6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage. With this regional expansion, M6in and M6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich, London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see the M6in and M6idn instances page.

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