AWS made EC2 T8i burstable instances generally available, using custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with advertised up-to-30% better price-performance versus T3.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) T8i burstable instances. These are CPU-based instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, identified as Granite Rapids.

AWS states that these custom processors are available only on AWS. It also describes T8i as being among the lowest-cost EC2 instances, although the supplied excerpt does not list hourly prices or instance sizes.

The advertised improvement is up to 30% better price-performance compared with the previous-generation T3 instances. This is AWS’s comparative claim, not a guarantee of a 30% improvement for every workload, and the excerpt does not provide benchmark methods, regional availability, or CPU-credit terms.