Amazon EVS integrated support for the i7i.metal-24xl EC2 instance featuring 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This instance provided a lower core count alternative with improved compute and storage performance over previous generations, promising up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price-performance compared to i4i instances.
The introduction of this instance type allowed customers more flexibility in running and scaling VMware-based virtual machines in AWS environments. Availability was aligned with the regions supporting both Amazon EVS and EC2 i7i instances, enabling enterprises to grow their cloud usage at tailored paces.
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Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-24xl Amazon EC2 instance type ↗Source published 2026-04-27. 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.