The Amazon EC2 I7ie instance family is designed for storage I/O-intensive workloads with substantial local NVMe SSD capacity and enhanced compute performance via 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors. These instances aim to deliver low-latency, high-throughput storage performance for large-scale data access scenarios.
Available in nine sizes and offering up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, I7ie instances provide improvements over predecessors such as better price and compute efficiency. The instances are suitable for applications needing fast, dense local storage but independent workload benchmarks are not provided.
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Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Canada (Central) ↗Source published 2026-02-05. 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.