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Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 instance type

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This article announces that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports the i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 bare-metal instance type for VMware-based workloads.

  • Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 23% better compute performance
  • Delivers more than 10% better price performance compared to i4i instances
  • Larger memory and storage footprint enables running more VMs with fewer EVS hosts
  • Supports VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x features including memory tiering and Amazon EVS Deployment Orchestrator
  • Available in AWS Regions where both Amazon EVS and EC2 i7i are supported

The i7i.metal-48xl instance type provides cost-performance benefits and vertical scaling capabilities for VMware environments on AWS.



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