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Since a preview launch at AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re asserting the final availability of latest memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i situations. These situations are powered by customized Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of three.9 GHz, out there solely on AWS. These SAP licensed situations ship the best efficiency and quickest reminiscence bandwidth amongst comparable Intel processors within the cloud.
X8i situations are perfect for memory-intensive workloads together with in-memory databases similar to SAP HANA, conventional large-scale databases, knowledge analytics, and digital design automation (EDA), which require excessive compute efficiency and a big reminiscence footprint.
These situations present 1.5 occasions extra reminiscence capability (as much as 6 TB), and three.4 occasions extra reminiscence bandwidth in comparison with earlier technology X2i situations. These situations provide as much as 43% larger efficiency in comparison with X2i situations, with larger good points on among the real-world workloads. They ship as much as 50% larger SAP Software Efficiency Customary (SAPS) efficiency, as much as 47% quicker PostgreSQL efficiency, as much as 88% quicker Memcached efficiency, and as much as 46% quicker AI inference efficiency.
In the course of the preview, prospects like RISE with SAP utilized as much as 6 TB of reminiscence capability with 50% larger compute efficiency in comparison with X2i situations. This enabled quicker transaction processing and improved question response occasions for SAP HANA workloads. Orion decreased the variety of energetic cores on X8i situations in comparison with X2idn situations whereas sustaining efficiency thresholds, chopping SQL Server licensing prices by 50%.
X8i situations
X8i situations can be found in 14 sizes together with three bigger occasion sizes (48xlarge, 64xlarge, and 96xlarge), so you may select the appropriate measurement to your software to scale up, and two naked steel sizes (metal-48xl and metal-96xl) to deploy workloads that profit from direct entry to bodily assets. X8i situations function as much as 100 Gbps of community bandwidth with assist for the Elastic Material Adapter (EFA) and as much as 80 Gbps of throughput to Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS).
Listed below are the specs for X8i situations:
| Occasion title | vCPUs | Reminiscence (GiB) | Community bandwidth (Gbps) | EBS bandwidth (Gbps) |
| x8i.massive | 2 | 32 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.xlarge | 4 | 64 | As much as 12.5 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.2xlarge | 8 | 128 | As much as 15 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.4xlarge | 16 | 256 | As much as 15 | As much as 10 |
| x8i.8xlarge | 32 | 512 | 15 | 10 |
| x8i.12xlarge | 48 | 768 | 22.5 | 15 |
| x8i.16xlarge | 64 | 1,024 | 30 | 20 |
| x8i.24xlarge | 96 | 1,536 | 40 | 30 |
| x8i.32xlarge | 128 | 2,048 | 50 | 40 |
| x8i.48xlarge | 192 | 3,072 | 75 | 60 |
| x8i.64xlarge | 256 | 4,096 | 80 | 70 |
| x8i.96xlarge | 384 | 6,144 | 100 | 80 |
| x8i.metal-48xl | 192 | 3,072 | 75 | 60 |
| x8i.metal-96xl | 384 | 6,144 | 100 | 80 |
X8i situations assist the occasion bandwidth configuration (IBC) function like different eighth-generation occasion varieties, providing flexibility to allocate assets between community and EBS bandwidth. You possibly can scale community or EBS bandwidth by as much as 25%, bettering database efficiency, question processing speeds, and logging effectivity. These situations additionally use sixth-generation AWS Nitro playing cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking features to devoted {hardware} and software program, enhancing efficiency and safety to your workloads.
Now out there
Amazon EC2 X8i situations are actually out there in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Areas. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the occasion sort within the CloudFormation assets tab of AWS Capabilities by Area.
You should buy these situations as On-Demand Cases, Financial savings Plan, and Spot Cases. To be taught extra, go to the Amazon EC2 Pricing web page.
Give X8i situations a strive within the Amazon EC2 console. To be taught extra, go to the Amazon EC2 X8i situations web page and ship suggestions to AWS re:Submit for EC2 or by your traditional AWS Assist contacts.
— Channy