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Amazon Expands EC2 M8a Instances to New Regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that its general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code-named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, offering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance compared to the previous M7a generation. The company introduced the new M8a instances last month.
The M8a instances also provide 45% more memory bandwidth, making them suitable for latency-sensitive workloads, the company said yesterday. According to AWS, they deliver up to 60% faster performance for the GroovyJVM benchmark and up to 39% faster for Cassandra workloads compared to M7a instances. They are SAP-certified and offered in 12 sizes, including two bare-metal options.
Built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, the M8a instances target applications requiring high performance and throughput, such as financial analytics, gaming, rendering, simulation modeling, application servers, and mid-size data stores. Customers can access the new instances through On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot options via the AWS Management Console, with more details available at the Amazon EC2 M8a instance page.
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