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Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

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AWS·2 days ago · Aug 20, 2026, 08:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Added C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd Graviton4‑based instances to new AWS regions (Singapore, Mexico Central, Melbourne, Zurich).
Instances deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3, with up to 40% higher I/O for database workloads and 20% faster analytics queries.
Introduced bandwidth weighting to adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% and EFA support on selected large sizes.

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