Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Web Services has expanded the availability of its EC2 I8ge instances to five additional regions: Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These storage-optimized instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized instances, while offering up to 120TB of local NVMe storage across eleven different instance sizes. The I8ge instances utilize third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs and provide significant performance improvements over the previous Im4gn generation, including up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB, up to 60% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability. The instances are designed for workloads requiring rapid local storage access with high random read/write performance and consistently low latency for large datasets, delivering up to 180 Gbps of network performance bandwidth and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store.
Why It Matters
This regional expansion of I8ge instances addresses growing demand for high-performance storage-optimized compute in key Asia-Pacific markets and Europe. The substantial performance improvements over previous generations, particularly the significant reduction in I/O latency and variability, make these instances valuable for data-intensive applications like analytics, databases, and real-time processing workloads that are increasingly critical for enterprises operating in these regions.
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