AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and offer the best compute performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances use the third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4g instances.