Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of new storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7ie instances. These instances boast up to 120 TB of low-latency NVMe storage and are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz. Compared to the previous generation, I7ie instances offer up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB, up to 50% lower I/O latency, up to 40% better compute performance, twice the vCPUs and memory, and 20% better price-performance. They are designed for I/O-intensive workloads like NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and analytics. I7ie instances are available in nine sizes, ranging from i7ie.large with 2 vCPUs and 16 GiB of memory to i7ie.48xlarge with 192 vCPUs and 1.5 TiB of memory. Enhancements like a larger L3 cache and increased memory bandwidth contribute to the improved processing power. Features like the VP2INTERSECT instruction and Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) boost performance for machine learning and deep learning workloads. Network-wise, the instances offer over 3x the EBS bandwidth of the previous generation. They support Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) and cluster placement groups, with the 48xlarge size also supporting Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). I7ie instances are available in several AWS regions, including US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, London), with plans to expand availability further. They can be purchased as On-Demand, Spot, Savings Plan, Dedicated Instance, and Dedicated Host.