Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6i and C6i bare metal instances are available. M6i and C6i 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 compute price performance over M5 and C5 instances respectively, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). M6i instances are well suited for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications, gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. C6i instances are well suited for compute-intensive applications like batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. Bare metal instances allow EC2 customers to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads not supported in virtual environments, and licensing-restricted business critical applications. They provide your applications with direct access to the 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying server. Workloads on bare metal instances continue to take advantage of all the comprehensive services and features of the AWS Cloud, such as Amazon [Elastic Block Store (EBS)](/ebs/), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Bare metal instances also make it possible for customers to run secured containers such as Clear Linux Containers. M6i metal and C6i metal instances come with 128 vCPUs, and 512 GiB and 256 GiB of memory respectively. They also support 50Gbps networking speed and 40Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon EBS. Customers can use [Elastic Fabric Adapter](/hpc/efa/) on these instances, 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 the optimal ENA driver, see [this article](/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/migrate-to-gen6-ec2-instance/). M6i metal instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). C6i metal instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). These new bare metal instances can be purchased as 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). For more information visit the [M6i instances](/ec2/instance-types/m6i/) and [C6i instances](/ec2/instance-types/c6i/) pages.