Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new 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 offer up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances.

M8gn 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, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). M8gb are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases.

M8gn instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 768 GiB of memory, up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). They also support EFA networking on the 16xlarge, 24xlarge, and 48xlarge sizes.

M8gb instances offer sizes up to 24xlarge, up to 768 GiB of memory, up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, and up to 200 Gbps of networking bandwidth. They support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on the 16xlarge and 24xlarge 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).

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb Instances. To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page.