Amazon EC2 introduced M8gd and R8gd instance types in Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai), with R8gd also arriving in Europe (Stockholm, Milan) and several Asia Pacific locations. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB local NVMe SSD storage and AWS Graviton4 CPUs, claiming up to 30% better performance than prior Graviton3 versions.
Built on AWS Nitro System, these instances support up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and customizable EBS bandwidth. Select sizes provide Elastic Fabric Adapter networking for HPC workloads. Available in 12 sizes, these offerings aim to optimize throughput and latency for storage-intensive applications. Vendor performance claims exist but external benchmarking is not cited.
Source & further reading
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions ↗Source published 2026-07-08. 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.