Amazon EC2 R8id Instances Now Available in Additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 R8id instances have expanded availability to Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). These instances offer up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local storage and 3.3x higher memory bandwidth, delivering up to 43% higher performance than R6id instances. They are optimized for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and large caches. Additionally, customers can now adjust network and Amazon EBS bandwidth by 25% for improved resource allocation.
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- Expanded Regional Availability for EC2 R8id Instances
Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). These instances offer up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local storage, up to 3.3x higher memory bandwidth, and 43% higher performance compared to R6id instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads. Customers can also adjust network and Amazon EBS bandwidth by 25% for optimized resource allocation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-ec2-r8id/
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