AWS EC2 M8i and M8i-flex Instances Now Available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous generations, with up to 20% performance gains over M7i/M7i-flex. They target general-purpose workloads like web servers, databases, and microservices, showing significant speed improvements for PostgreSQL, NGINX, and AI deep learning models. M8i instances are SAP-certified and include new larger sizes, while M8i-flex provides optimized price-performance for common workloads.
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- M8i and M8i-flex instances expand to AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous Intel generations, providing up to 20% better performance than M7i/M7i-flex for various workloads.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-ec2-m8i-m8i-flex-thf/
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