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Since a preview launch at AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re asserting the final availability of recent memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i cases. These cases are powered by customized Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of three.9 GHz, obtainable solely on AWS. These SAP licensed cases ship the best efficiency and quickest reminiscence bandwidth amongst comparable Intel processors within the cloud.
X8i cases are perfect for memory-intensive workloads together with in-memory databases resembling SAP HANA, conventional large-scale databases, knowledge analytics, and digital design automation (EDA), which require excessive compute efficiency and a big reminiscence footprint.
These cases present 1.5 occasions extra reminiscence capability (as much as 6 TB), and three.4 occasions extra reminiscence bandwidth in comparison with earlier era X2i cases. These cases provide as much as 43% greater efficiency in comparison with X2i cases, with greater beneficial properties on among the real-world workloads. They ship as much as 50% greater SAP Utility Efficiency Customary (SAPS) efficiency, as much as 47% sooner PostgreSQL efficiency, as much as 88% sooner Memcached efficiency, and as much as 46% sooner AI inference efficiency.
Through the preview, clients like RISE with SAP utilized as much as 6 TB of reminiscence capability with 50% greater compute efficiency in comparison with X2i cases. This enabled sooner transaction processing and improved question response occasions for SAP HANA workloads. Orion lowered the variety of energetic cores on X8i cases in comparison with X2idn cases whereas sustaining efficiency thresholds, reducing SQL Server licensing prices by 50%.
X8i cases
X8i cases can be found in 14 sizes together with three bigger occasion sizes (48xlarge, 64xlarge, and 96xlarge), so you possibly can select the best measurement in your utility to scale up, and two naked steel sizes (metal-48xl and metal-96xl) to deploy workloads that profit from direct entry to bodily assets. X8i cases function as much as 100 Gbps of community bandwidth with help for the Elastic Material Adapter (EFA) and as much as 80 Gbps of throughput to Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS).
Listed below are the specs for X8i cases:
| Occasion identify | vCPUs | Reminiscence (GiB) |
Community bandwidth (Gbps) | EBS bandwidth (Gbps) |
| x8i.giant | 2 | 32 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.xlarge | 4 | 64 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.2xlarge | 8 | 128 | As much as 15 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.4xlarge | 16 | 256 | As much as 15 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.8xlarge | 32 | 512 | 15 | 10 |
| x8i.12xlarge | 48 | 768 | 22.5 | 15 |
| x8i.16xlarge | 64 | 1,024 | 30 | 20 |
| x8i.24xlarge | 96 | 1,536 | 40 | 30 |
| x8i.32xlarge | 128 | 2,048 | 50 | 40 |
| x8i.48xlarge | 192 | 3,072 | 75 | 60 |
| x8i.64xlarge | 256 | 4,096 | 80 | 70 |
| x8i.96xlarge | 384 | 6,144 | 100 | 80 |
| x8i.metal-48xl | 192 | 3,072 | 75 | 60 |
| x8i.metal-96xl | 384 | 6,144 | 100 | 80 |
X8i cases help the occasion bandwidth configuration (IBC) function like different eighth-generation occasion sorts, providing flexibility to allocate assets between community and EBS bandwidth. You possibly can scale community or EBS bandwidth by as much as 25%, enhancing database efficiency, question processing speeds, and logging effectivity. These cases additionally use sixth-generation AWS Nitro playing cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking features to devoted {hardware} and software program, enhancing efficiency and safety in your workloads.
Now obtainable
Amazon EC2 X8i cases at the moment are obtainable in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Areas. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the occasion kind within the CloudFormation assets tab of AWS Capabilities by Area.
You should buy these cases as On-Demand Cases, Financial savings Plan, and Spot Cases. To study extra, go to the Amazon EC2 Pricing web page.
Give X8i cases a attempt within the Amazon EC2 console. To study extra, go to the Amazon EC2 X8i cases web page and ship suggestions to AWS re:Publish for EC2 or via your typical AWS Assist contacts.
— Channy