Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU compared to previous generation R6in and R6idn instances. R8in, R8idn instances deliver 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among enhanced networking EC2 inst
AWS is continuously expanding its specialized instance types and regional availability to meet the evolving demands for high-performance computing, particularly as AI and data-intensive workloads grow.
This announcement signifies an ongoing push by AWS to provide more powerful, purpose-built compute infrastructure globally, supporting advanced applications and potentially challenging competitors with optimized hardware.
Customers in specified Asia Pacific and European regions now have access to AWS's latest generation, high-bandwidth compute instances, offering substantial performance improvements for network and EBS-intensive applications.
- · AWS
- · Companies operating in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland)
- · Cloud-native applications requiring high network/EBS throughput
- · Intel
- · Other cloud providers
- · Legacy on-premise infrastructure for high-bandwidth workloads
Increased adoption and migration of network/EBS-intensive workloads to AWS in the new regions due to performance benefits.
Enhanced competitive pressure on other cloud providers to offer comparable specialized compute instances with similar performance and global reach.
Accelerated development and deployment of generative AI and data analytics applications that heavily rely on high-bandwidth and fast storage access.
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