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Introducing Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances

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This article announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances, powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and AWS Nitro cards.

  • 43% better compute performance per vCPU compared to M6idn instances
  • M8idn offers up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth for network-intensive workloads
  • M8idb delivers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage-intensive workloads
  • M8idn ideal for distributed compute, data analytics, high-performance file systems
  • M8idb ideal for large databases, data lakes, NoSQL databases
  • Available in US East, US West, and Europe regions
  • Offered via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances

AWS introduces two new high-performance general purpose instances optimized for network and storage-intensive workloads with significant performance improvements.



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