Now generally available: Amazon EC2 R8gn instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gn instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. R8gn 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.

Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities of R8gn to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as SQL and NoSQL databases, and in-memory databases. For increased scalability, these instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, including two metal sizes, up to 1,536 GiB of memory, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). These instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on the 16xlarge, 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes, which enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.

The new instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon). Metal sizes are only available in US East (N. Virginia).

To learn more, see Amazon R8gn Instances. 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.