Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 2 additional regions

Starting today, [Amazon EC2 M6i instances](/ec2/instance-types/m6i/) are available in additional AWS Regions US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS [Nitro System](/ec2/nitro/), a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. M6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better price performance over M5 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). To meet customer demands for increased scalability, M6i instances provide a new instance size (m6i.32xlarge) with 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory, 33% more than the largest M5 instance. They also provide up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to M5 instances. M6i also give customers up to 50 Gbps of networking speed and 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon [Elastic Block Store](/ebs/), twice that of M5 instances. Customers can use [Elastic Fabric Adapter](/hpc/efa/) on the 32xlarge size, which enables low latency and highly scalable inter-node communication. For optimal networking performance on these new instances, Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver update may be required. For more information on optimal ENA driver for M6i, see this [article](/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/migrate-to-gen6-ec2-instance/). With this regional expansion, M6i instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo) Regions. M6i instances are available in 9 sizes with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, and 128 vCPUs. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit the [AWS Management Console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/), [AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)](/cli/), and [AWS SDKs](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.html). To learn more, visit the [M6i instances](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m6i) page.