Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions

From the source: Amazon Web Services Blog

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gd instances are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for…

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Originally published by Amazon Web Services Blog on 10 Oct 2026. Techarda links to the original rather than republishing it. Read the full article →

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