Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
Amazon EC2 ยท 2026-02-04
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Technical Details
| Regions | us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2, eu-central-1 |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Neutral |
| IaC Impact | High |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update your infrastructure-as-code templates to include the new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances, taking advantage of their increased vCPUs, memory, and local storage to optimize your workloads.
For Platform Teams
Adopt the new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to enhance your platform's compute and storage capabilities, enabling better performance for I/O intensive workloads and reducing operational toil.
For Executives
Evaluate deploying new EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to leverage up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3 times more memory bandwidth, driving greater efficiencies and cost savings for your applications.
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