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AWS Expands Amazon EC2 C8gn Instances Powered by Graviton4 to Additional Global Regions

New regions gain access to C8gn instances offering up to 30% better compute performance and high network bandwidth for intensive workloads.

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-09. Source published: 2026-02-09. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Amazon EC2 C8gn instances utilize AWS’s 4th-generation Graviton processors to deliver significant performance improvements for network-intensive and compute-heavy applications, including AI/ML inference and data analytics. These instances provide up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and configurations up to 48xlarge with 384 GiB memory.

The announcement extends availability to regions including Asia Pacific (Seoul, Melbourne), Canada, Europe (Spain), and AWS GovCloud. Included support for Elastic Fabric Adapter on select instance sizes facilitates low-latency clustering. While vendor information highlights performance gains, user results may vary based on workload characteristics and regional infrastructure.

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Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions ↗

Source published 2026-02-09. 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.