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New General Purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances

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AWS has announced the general availability of new Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors.

  • Offers up to 15% better price-performance compared to previous generations
  • Provides 2.5x more memory bandwidth
  • Delivers up to 20% better performance than M7i instances
  • Performance gains for specific workloads:
    • 30% faster for PostgreSQL databases
    • 60% faster for NGINX web applications
    • 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models
  • Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain)
  • Purchasable via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances

The M8i-flex instances are ideal for general-purpose workloads, while M8i instances are best for high CPU usage and large applications.



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