- C7i‑flex instances with 4th‑Gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the Europe (Milan) AWS region.
- They provide up to 15% higher performance than comparable x86 Intel CPUs and up to 19% better price‑performance versus C6i.
- Available in sizes from large to 16xlarge, suitable for web/app servers, databases, caches, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and similar workloads.
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region
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C7i instances (4th‑Gen Intel Xeon) are now offered in Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary) regions.