Introducing Amazon EC2 M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. M8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

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 M8g instances. To learn more, visit AWS Local Zones overview page and see Amazon EC2 M8g instances.