2 years ago

Category: Software

Last year, we introduced the sixth generation of EC2 instances powered by AWS-designed Graviton2 processors. We’re now expanding our sixth-generation offerings to include x86-based instances, delivering price/performance benefits for workloads that rely on x86 instructions. Today, I am happy to announce the availability of the new general purpose Amazon EC2 M6i instances, which offer up to 15% improvement in price/performance versus comparable fifth-generation instances.

You might have noticed that we’re now using the “i” suffix in the instance type to specify that the instances are using an Intel processor.

Compared to M5 instances using an Intel processor, this new instance type provides: M6i instances are a good fit for running general-purpose workloads such as web and application servers, containerized applications, microservices, and small data stores.