Expansion and Performance Boost of Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id Instances

AWS extended availability of higher-performance Intel Xeon-powered EC2 instances to new regions, delivering increased compute, memory bandwidth, and storage for diverse workloads.

By Maya Bennett · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-07-09 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-07-09. Source published: 2026-07-09. 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 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances, using custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, debuted in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and European regions with up to 43% increased performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to predecessors. Their resources scale up to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB RAM, and 22.8 TB NVMe SSD storage.

Designed for compute-intensive (C8id), balanced (M8id), and memory-intensive (R8id) workloads, these instances provide up to 46% better I/O performance on databases and 30% faster analytics queries. Flexible bandwidth allocation supports optimal networking and EBS throughput per workload requirements.

Source & further reading

Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are now available in additional regions ↗

Source published 2026-07-09. 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.