Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.48xlarge instances in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions

AWS announces the general availability of one new larger sizes (48xlarge) on Amazon EC2 I8g instances in US East(N. Virginia) and US West(Oregon) regions. The new size expand the I8g portfolio supporting up to 192vCPUs, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional CPU and memory. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads.

I8g instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, 1,536 GiB of memory, and 45 TB instance storage. They are ideal for real-time applications like relational databases, non-relational databases, streaming databases, search queries and data analytic.

To learn more, see Amazon I8g instances. To learn how to migrate your workloads to AWS Graviton-based instances, see the Getting started with Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.