Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Amazon EC2 ยท 2026-05-26

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Technical Details

Regions us-gov-east-1
Cost Impact Decrease
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your infrastructure to include R8i instances, leveraging their superior performance and memory bandwidth to optimize existing workloads and reduce operational toil by up to 30% for specific applications.

For Platform Teams

Adopt R8i instances to enhance your platform's performance capabilities, reducing resource utilization costs by up to 15% and improving application performance by up to 60% for web applications.

For Executives

Evaluate deploying R8i instances for improved performance and cost-efficiency, achieving up to 15% better price-performance and significant speed gains for key workloads, ultimately driving competitive advantage and operational excellence.

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