Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are now available in an additional region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C6id, M6id and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than their 5th generation counterpart instances.

Compared to previous generation instances, C6id instances offer up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB. Both M6id and R6id instances offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU and 34% lower cost per TB compared to the previous generation. All of the three new instances come with always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, all these instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. The generation 6 disk instances also provide customers up to 50 Gbps of networking speed and 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store, twice that of comparable previous generation instances.

C6id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage, such as video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing. C6id instances will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing, and applications that need caches and scratch files. M6id instances are ideal for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, including data logging and media processing. M6id instances will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing, and applications that need caches and scratch files. R6id instances are well-suited for memory-intensive workloads, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. They will also benefit applications that need temporary data storage, such as caches and scratch files.

To meet customer demands for increased scalability, all three instances offer a new instance size (32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 33% more memory compared to previous generation 5 instances. A large number of vCPUs and available memory make it easier and more cost-efficient to consolidate workloads and scale up applications.

These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Ireland) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, On-Demand Instances, and Spot Instances. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs.