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Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

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AWS·Oct 9, 2026, 07:29 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

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R8gd instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region
They provide up to 11.4 TB NVMe SSD storage, up to 30% performance improvement over Graviton3, 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth with configurable bandwidth weighting
EFA networking is supported on the 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal‑24xl, and metal‑48xl sizes

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Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

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AWS·Oct 9, 2026, 07:29 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

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R8gd instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region
They provide up to 11.4 TB NVMe SSD storage, up to 30% performance improvement over Graviton3, 50 Gbps network and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth with configurable bandwidth weighting
EFA networking is supported on the 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal‑24xl, and metal‑48xl sizes

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