Amazon EC2 instances support bandwidth configurations for VPC and EBS
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AWS has announced the general availability of Instance Bandwidth Configurations (IBC) for 8th generation Graviton-based EC2 instances, offering customers more flexibility in bandwidth resource allocation.
- Customers can adjust VPC and EBS service bandwidth by up to 25%
- Increasing bandwidth for one service reduces bandwidth for the other
- Does not increase burst bandwidth, packets per second, or IOPS capabilities
- Available for C8g, M8g, R8g, and X8g instance platforms
- Supports improved performance for storage, data analytics, and database workloads
- Available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost
IBC provides users with greater control over bandwidth resources, allowing more tailored performance optimization for different types of workloads.
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