Announcing new metal sizes for Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. M8gb offers up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances.

M8gn and M8gb instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge and metal-48xl, with up to 768 GiB of memory. M8gn instances offer up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth, up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). M8gb instances offer up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, up to 400 Gbps of networking bandwidth, and are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high-performance databases and NoSQL databases.

M8gn and M8gb instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 16xlarge, 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes. EFA networking enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.

The new metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes are available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) region.

To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page. To get started, see AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.