Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 ยท 2026-09-25
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Technical Details
| Regions | AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) |
|---|---|
| Cost Impact | Decrease |
| IaC Impact | High |
What This Means
For DevOps Teams
Update your infrastructure-as-code templates to include C8i and C8i-flex instances for new deployments, leveraging their superior performance and price-performance benefits.
For Platform Teams
Adopt C8i and C8i-flex instances for memory-intensive and compute-intensive workloads to achieve significant performance improvements and cost savings.
For Executives
Evaluate deploying C8i and C8i-flex instances to achieve up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth, enhancing application performance and cost efficiency in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region.
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