Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.metal-48xl instances

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g.metal-48xl instances. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the [AWS Nitro System](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/), which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional and real-time databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL solutions like ClickHouse, Apache Druid, and MongoDB. They're also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark. I8g instances are available in 11 different sizes with up to 48xlarge (including 2 metal sizes), 1,536 GiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit [EC2 I8g instances](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i8g/). To begin your Graviton journey, visit the [Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/level-up-with-graviton/).