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Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region

Amazon EC2's 7th generation High Memory U7i instances are now available in the São Paulo region, offering 24 TiB of DDR5 memory ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS South America (São Paulo) region. U7i instances are part of AWS's 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in fast-growing data environments. These instances deliver 896 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers running mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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