AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (London) region. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose and compute intensive workloads. M7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i instances respectively. These instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources such as web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch-processing, microservices, databases, caches, and more. For workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage M7i instances.

The new M7i-flex sizes are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Thailand, Tokyo), Mexico (Central), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).

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