Introducing HAQM EC2 C8g and M8g Instances
AWS announces the general availability of HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) C8g instances and HAQM EC2 M8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. C8g instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning inference, and ad serving. M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System.
AWS Graviton4-based HAQM EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on HAQM EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory than Graviton3-based instances. They are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS). Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support is offered on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, and bare metal sizes, and Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express support is available on instance sizes larger than 12xlarge.
C8g and M8g instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt).
To learn more, see HAQM EC2 C8g instances and HAQM EC2 M8g instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.