Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available

AWS announces general availability of EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances featuring up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors at 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo.

• •Up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth vs. previous sixth-generation instances
• •Up to 46% better performance for I/O-intensive database workloads and 30% faster real-time analytics queries
• •Scales up to 96xlarge with 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB memory, and 22.8 TB local storage; includes two bare metal sizes (metal-48xl, metal-96xl)
• •Supports Instance Bandwidth Configuration (IBC) to dynamically allocate network vs. EBS bandwidth in 25% increments
• •Local NVMe storage is hardware-encrypted with XTS-AES-256 per-instance unique keys, destroyed on stop/terminate
• •Available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), with R8id also in Europe (Frankfurt)