# EC2 M8gd and R8gd Instances Are Now Available in More Regions!

Hey, I'm Shii-chan! Today I found news that EC2 instances are now available in even more regions, so let me walk you through it!

## What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional regions. Here's the breakdown:

- Both M8gd and R8gd: Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
- R8gd only, additionally: Europe (Stockholm, Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka, Melbourne, Singapore, Taipei)

This isn't a brand-new instance family launch — it's the existing M8gd and R8gd families expanding into more regions.

## The story so far

M8gd and R8gd are Graviton4-generation instances with local NVMe SSD storage that originally rolled out in a smaller set of regions. With this update, they're now spreading further across Europe and Asia Pacific, so people who didn't have them nearby before now have them as an option.

## What changes

If your workloads live in Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Mumbai, Osaka, Melbourne, Singapore, or Taipei, you no longer need to reach into a far-away region to get fast local storage with Graviton4 performance. It becomes easier to build low-latency applications that use local NVMe storage closer to your users in these regions.

## Dive Deep

Here's what M8gd and R8gd bring to the table:

- **Storage**: Up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage
- **Processor**: Powered by AWS Graviton4, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances
- **Foundation**: Built on the AWS Nitro System, suited for applications that need high-speed, low-latency local storage
- **Sizes**: 12 different sizes available for each instance type
- **Network bandwidth**: Up to 50 Gbps
- **EBS bandwidth**: Up to 40 Gbps
- **Flexible bandwidth allocation**: EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration lets you adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% increments to better fit your workload
- **EFA support**: Elastic Fabric Adapter networking is available on the 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes

You can get started from the AWS Management Console, and if you're considering a move to Graviton, the AWS Graviton Fast Start program is worth checking out.

## Wrap-up

- M8gd and R8gd are now available in Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
- R8gd is additionally available in Europe (Stockholm, Milan) and Asia Pacific (Osaka, Melbourne, Singapore, Taipei)
- Up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage, with up to 30% better performance thanks to Graviton4
- 12 sizes each, up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, plus 25% bandwidth weighting adjustments
- EFA networking available on the larger sizes

This update is great news if you want to run storage-hungry, low-latency workloads in one of these newly supported regions!