Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-24xl Amazon EC2 instance type
Amazon Web Services has expanded its Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) to support the i7i.metal-24xl EC2 instance type, providing enterprises with a new bare-metal option for running VMware workloads in the cloud. The new instance type features 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and offers a lower-core-count configuration compared to previous options, designed to deliver improved cost-performance ratios for organizations migrating VMware-based virtual machines to AWS. According to AWS, the i7i instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance compared to the previous generation i4i instances. The storage-optimized instances are positioned as the best-performing x86-based option for storage-intensive workloads within Amazon EC2. The new instance type is now available in all AWS regions where both Amazon EVS and EC2 i7i services are currently supported, giving organizations more flexibility in scaling their cloud infrastructure according to business requirements.
Why It Matters
This expansion gives enterprises more granular options for right-sizing their VMware cloud migrations, potentially reducing costs for workloads that don't require the full compute capacity of larger instance types. The addition of newer Intel processors with improved price-performance metrics could accelerate VMware-to-cloud transitions, especially for storage-intensive applications that can benefit from the optimized i7i architecture.
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