Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency and feature a 2:1 ratio of memory to vCPU. These instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

The C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15 percent better price-performance, and 2.5 times more memory bandwidth compared to C7i and C7i-flex instances. The C8i and C8i-flex instances are up to 60 percent faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40 percent faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35 percent faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex instances.

C8i and C8i-flex instances are ideal for ...