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Announcing metal-48xl and metal-96xl for Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances

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This article announces the general availability of metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for Amazon EC2 M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances.

  • Powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with latest AWS Nitro cards
  • Deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus previous generation instances
  • M8in/M8idn/R8in/R8idn offer 600 Gbps network bandwidth, highest among enhanced networking EC2
  • M8ib/M8idb/R8ib/R8idb deliver up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth, highest among non-accelerated compute
  • Support Elastic Fabric Adapter networking for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters
  • Available in AWS US East (N. Virginia) region

These new instance sizes provide enhanced performance for network-intensive, storage-intensive, and high-performance computing workloads.



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