AWS expanded availability of I7ie EC2 instances to Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Paris) regions. These instances deliver up to 40% better compute and 20% better price performance than prior generation I3en, with up to 120TB local NVMe storage and improved storage I/O latency.
Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances target workloads requiring low-latency, high-throughput local storage. They are available in nine sizes and support up to 100Gbps network bandwidth. Independent benchmark data verifying vendor performance claims has not been widely published yet.
Source & further reading
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in additional AWS regions ↗Source published 2026-01-07. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.