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New Storage-Optimized Amazon EC2 I4g Instances: Graviton Processors and AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Today we are launching I4g instances powered by https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ processors that deliver up to 15% better compute performance than our other storage-optimized instances. These workloads are generally very sensitive to I/O latency, and require plenty of random read/write IOPS along with high CPU performance. The I4g instances make use of AWS Nitro SSDs (read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-ssd-high-performance-storage-for-your-i-o-intensive-applications/ to learn more) for NVMe storage. Each storage volume can deliver the following performance (all measured using 4 KiB blocks): Up to 800K random write IOPS Up to 1 million random read IOPS Up to 5600 MB/second of sequential writes Up to 8000 MB/second of sequential reads https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/storage-twp.html is supported for 4 KiB, 8 KiB, and 16 KiB blocks. Available Now I4g instances are available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) AWS Regions in On-Demand, Spot, Reserved Instance, and Savings Plan form.