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Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.metal-48xl instances

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This article announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 I8g.metal-48xl instances, a new storage-optimized instance type powered by AWS Graviton4 processors.

  • Up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous I4g instances
  • Third generation AWS Nitro SSDs deliver 65% better storage performance per TB
  • 50% lower storage I/O latency and 60% lower latency variability
  • Designed for I/O intensive workloads requiring rapid data access
  • Optimized for transactional databases and real-time analytics platforms
  • Available in 11 sizes up to 48xlarge with 1,536 GiB memory and 45 TB storage
  • Up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth and 60 Gbps EBS dedicated bandwidth

I8g instances provide significant performance improvements for database and analytics workloads requiring high-speed storage and low-latency access.



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