# AWS adds i7i bare-metal option to Elastic VMware Service

_Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM EDT · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS announced that Amazon Elastic VMware Service now supports the i7i.metal-48xl EC2 bare-metal instance type. The option uses fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provides a larger memory and storage footprint for VMware virtual machines. AWS says i7i instances offer up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance than i4i instances. The release is available where both Amazon EVS and EC2 i7i are offered.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-evs-i7i-48xl)

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