Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region

Amazon EC2 ยท 2026-05-07

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Technical Details

Regions us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1
Cost Impact Neutral
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your infrastructure-as-code templates to include M8gn and M8gb instances for network-intensive and storage-intensive workloads to leverage their enhanced performance capabilities.

For Platform Teams

Adopt M8gn and M8gb instances in your architecture to simplify deployment of high-performance, network and storage optimized workloads with reduced operational toil.

For Executives

Evaluate deploying M8gn and M8gb instances to achieve up to 30% better compute performance and higher network/EBS bandwidth for your workloads, enabling improved application performance and competitive advantage.

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