Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

<p>Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i and C7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i and C8i-flex are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex. <br> <br> C8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads like web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, and enterprise applications. They offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources. <br> <br> C8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. <br> <br> To get started, sign in to the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/console/" target="_blank"><u>AWS Management Console</u></a>. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information about the new <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c8i/" target="_blank"><u>C8i and C8i-flex</u></a> instances visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/" target="_blank"><u>AWS News blog</u></a>.</p>