Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 instance type
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports the i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 bare-metal instance type, providing a higher core-count option with 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This enhancement offers up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price performance compared to i4i instances for VMware-based workloads. Customers can now run more virtual machines on fewer EVS hosts, taking advantage of features like VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x memory tiering. This new instance support is available in AWS Regions where both Amazon EVS and Amazon EC2 i7i are present.
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- Add i7i.metal-48xl instance type support to Amazon EVS
Amazon EVS now supports the i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 bare-metal instance, powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This new option offers better compute and storage performance, enabling users to run more virtual machines with improved cost-performance for VMware workloads. It also facilitates leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x features such as memory tiering.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-evs-i7i-48xl
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