Amazon EC2 C8id instances are now available in Europe (Spain)

Posted on: Mar 11, 2026

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors feature up to 384 vCPUs, 768GiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage and deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation C6id instances. Starting today, C8id instances are available in Europe (Spain) region.

These instances deliver up to 46% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 30% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than previous sixth-generation instances. Additionally, these instances support Instance Bandwidth Configuration, allowing 25% flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth, allocating resources optimally for each workload.

C8id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high-performance web servers, batch processing, distributed analytics, ad serving, video encoding, and gaming servers.

C8id instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Spain), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 instance type page.