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Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US)

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AWS·7 days ago · Jul 9, 2026, 07:24 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Introduces M8gd and R8gd instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) with up to 11.4 TB NVMe SSD storage and Graviton4 CPUs, offering ~30% better performance than Graviton3.
Adds configurable bandwidth weighting, up to 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support on select large sizes.
Provides 12 size options per instance type and documentation links for migration and usage.

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