Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region

<p>Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances.</p> <p>X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Compared to X2i instances, X8i instances offer up to 50% higher SAPS performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, 88% faster Memcached performance, and 46% faster AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes, from large to 96xlarge, including two bare metal options.</p> <p>To get started, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/console/" target="_blank">AWS Management Console</a>. X8i instances can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x8i/" target="_blank">X8i instances page</a>.</p>