Introducing new larger sizes on Amazon EC2 Flex instances
AWS announces the general availability of two new larger sizes (12xlarge and 16xlarge) on Amazon EC2 Flex (C7i-flex, M7i-flex) instances. 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 to get price performance benefits and lower prices for a majority of compute-intensive and general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price performance than comparable previous generation instances and are a great first choice for applications that do not fully utilize the compute resources. Flex instances are ideal for web and application servers, batch processing, enterprise applications, databases, and more. For compute-intensive and general-purpose workloads that need even larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage Amazon EC2 C7i and M7i instances.
The new C7i-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, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
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, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).