Amazon EC2 C8a Instances Now Available in Europe with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs

AWS launched AMD Milan-X based compute-optimized instances delivering higher performance and memory bandwidth.

By Clara Morgan · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-02-17 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-02-17. Source published: 2026-02-17. 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.

The Amazon EC2 C8a family, featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors running up to 4.5 GHz, was made available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland). These instances offer up to 30% increased performance and 19% better price-performance compared to the prior C7a generation, as stated by AWS.

With 33% more memory bandwidth and improved speed for GroovyJVM workloads, C8a supports high-performance computing, batch processing, distributed analytics, gaming, and video encoding tasks. Twelve instance sizes including bare metal options provide customers flexibility to optimize compute resource allocation.

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Amazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) region ↗

Source published 2026-02-17. 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.