New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
AWS makes Amazon EC2 T8i instances generally available, powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, codenamed Granite Rapids. AWS says the burstable instances offer up to 30% better price performance than the previous-generation T3 instances and are available only on AWS.
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Why it matters
The new instance family gives cloud customers another burstable compute option and a stated price-performance improvement over T3. Its AWS-only availability is relevant to infrastructure teams weighing instance choices.