Amazon EC2 M6id instances are now available in US West (N. California) region
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in US West (N. California) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.
M6id instances are built on [AWS Nitro System](https://aws.amazon.com/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 for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics.
These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Canada West (Calgary), Canada (Central), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Malaysia, Mumbai, Thailand), Europe (Zurich, Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Israel (Tel Aviv) [Regions](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/).
Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit [AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/), and [AWS SDKs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.html). To learn more, visit our product page for [M6id](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m6i/).
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