Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

C7i-flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads, and deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more.

To learn more, visit the EC2 C7i-flex instances page.