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EC2 C7i-flex Instances Land in the Europe (Milan) Region!

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Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! Today's got a nice bit of AWS news — a popular instance family is now available in a brand-new region.

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What was announced?

According to AWS's What's New, Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Milan) region. C7i-flex instances run on custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS.

The story so far

C7i-flex has already been a popular choice for teams that want great compute price-performance without fully maxing out every core, and it's been rolling out region by region. Until now, though, it wasn't available in Milan, so teams running workloads there couldn't pick this cost-friendly option close to home.

What changes

Now, if your workloads live in the Milan region, you can choose C7i-flex too. That means you can get solid price-performance while keeping your compute close to your data and users — great news if you care about latency or data residency but still want to save on cost.

Dive Deep

AWS says the custom processors behind C7i-flex deliver up to 15% better performance than comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers, and C7i-flex instances offer up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i.

Sizes range from large to 16xlarge, covering the most commonly used configurations.

  • Great for applications that don't fully utilize all their compute resources
  • Web and application servers
  • Databases
  • Caches
  • Apache Kafka
  • Elasticsearch

AWS positions C7i-flex as a great first choice for workloads that need solid compute but don't run flat-out all the time.

Wrap-up

  • Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Milan) region
  • Powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, up to 15% faster than comparable processors from other clouds
  • Up to 19% better price-performance versus C6i
  • Sizes from large to 16xlarge
  • Good fit for web/app servers, databases, caches, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

If you're running workloads out of Milan and want better price-performance without extra tuning, this is worth a look!

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