Amazon EC2 R8id instances now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). These instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local storage and three times more memory bandwidth than R6id, delivering up to 43% higher performance. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, large in-memory caches, and data processing applications. Customers can adjust network and Amazon EBS bandwidth by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration. The 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking. These instances can be purchased through Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances.

Why it matters

This update announces the expansion of Amazon EC2 R8id instances to additional regions, providing high-performance computing and storage resources for memory-intensive workloads, impacting applications such as data processing and analytics