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Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

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AWS has announced the general availability of new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors.

  • Offer up to 15% better price-performance compared to previous generation
  • Provide 2.5 times more memory bandwidth than C7i instances
  • Up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications
  • Up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models
  • Available in US East, US West, and Europe (Spain) regions
  • Ideal for compute-intensive workloads like web servers, caching, and HPC

C8i-flex instances are a lower-cost variant offering 5% better price performance and can reach full CPU performance 95% of the time.



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