--- title: Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available... description: Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances offer... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-ec2-m8i-and-m8i-flex-instances-are-now-available-in-aws-govcloud-us-west-region-qn1rq1wmf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region | daily.dev og:description: Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances offer... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-ec2-m8i-and-m8i-flex-instances-are-now-available-in-aws-govcloud-us-west-region-qn1rq1wmf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Qn1rq1wmf.png og:image:alt: Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous-generation Intel-based instances. Compared to M7i/M7i-flex, they deliver up to 20% better general performance, up to 30% faster PostgreSQL, 60% faster NGINX, and 40% faster AI deep learning recommendation workloads. M8i-flex targets general-purpose workloads in sizes from large to 16xlarge, while M8i supports up to 96xlarge and bare metal sizes for SAP-certified and high-CPU workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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