Amazon EC2 X8i instances now available in Ireland and Mumbai
AI Impact Summary
Amazon has expanded the availability of EC2 X8i instances to new regions – Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) – significantly broadening access to their high-performance, custom Intel Xeon 6-powered infrastructure. These instances are optimized for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA and EDA, offering substantial performance gains compared to previous generation X2i instances, including up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth. This expansion presents an opportunity for teams currently running these workloads to reduce latency and improve throughput.
Affected Systems
Business Impact
Organizations can now deploy memory-intensive applications like SAP HANA and EDA in new AWS regions, potentially reducing latency and improving performance for these workloads.
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- medium