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New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available

AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.

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Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances . These instances are designed to run a variety of low-to-moderate CPU utilization workloads such as freemium services, training and demo environments, staging and development, data processing, microservices, low-traffic websites, and login gateways.

T8i instances Thousands and thousands of customers run various lightweight workloads on T3 instances that require small, cost-effective compute configurations. These include microservices architectures, low-traffic websites, development and testing environments, small databases, data processing jobs, and short-duration…

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