#aws-ec2

Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in five additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand, New Zealand), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Canada West (Calgary). These instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. Compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances, R8g instances offer up to 30% better overall performance, 40% faster database performance, 45% faster large Java application performance, up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge), and up to 1.5TB memory. They support up to 50 Gbps networking bandwidth and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and are available in 12 sizes including two bare metal options.