Introducing Amazon EC2 C6in and M6in Instances in Dallas Local Zone

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in and M6in instances in Dallas Local Zone. These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz. They are x86-based general purpose and compute-optimized instances offering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth. The instances are built on AWS Nitro System, which is a dedicated and lightweight hypervisor that delivers the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. You can take advantage of the higher network bandwidth to scale the performance for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists. You can use Local Zones to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for use cases such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, and AR/VR at the edge.

To get started, you can enable AWS Dallas Local Zone us-east-1-dfw-2a, in the Amazon EC2 Console or the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API, and deploy C6in and M6in instances. To learn more, visit AWS Local Zones overview page and see Amazon EC2 Instance types.