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Amazon EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized performance

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This article announces increased Amazon EBS performance for specific Amazon EC2 instance types powered by AWS Graviton4 processors.

  • C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances in 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes now support doubled EBS performance
  • EBS bandwidth increased from 60 Gbps to 120 Gbps
  • IOPS increased from 240,000 to 480,000
  • Enhancement powered by latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards
  • No additional cost for existing and new instances
  • Existing instances can stop/start to enable the performance increase
  • Available in all AWS regions where these instance types are offered

This upgrade benefits network-intensive workloads requiring high block storage performance, such as data analytics and high-performance file systems.

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