The C8ID instance family, generally available since February 4, 2026, is powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and offers up to 22.8TB of high-speed NVMe SSD instance storage. These compute-optimized instances deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than the previous generation. They feature Instance Bandwidth Configuration for flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth, making them ideal for I/O intensive, compute-heavy workloads.