Introducing two new Amazon EC2 I7ie bare metal instances sizes

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared to I3en instances, they deliver 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances.

EC2 bare metal instances provide direct access to the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources. They allow EC2 customers to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads incompatible with virtual environments, and licensing-restricted business critical applications. These instances feature three Intel accelerator technologies: Intel Data Streaming accelerator (DSA), Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT). These accelerators optimize workload performance through efficient data operation offloading and acceleration.

I7ie instances offer metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes with 96 and 192 vCPUs respectively and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.