Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in AWS Secret Region
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are now available in the AWS Secret Region. C7i instances are supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15 percent better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers.
C7i instances deliver up to 15 percent better price performance compared to C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology, which are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads.
C7i instances support new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based machine learning (ML). Customers can attach up to 128 Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to a C7i instance compared to up to 28 EBS volumes to a C6i instance. This allows processing of larger amounts of data, scaled workloads, and improved performance over C6i instances.
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