Amazon Aurora and RDS now support Graviton5-based R9g database instances

AWS Graviton5-based R9g Instances Now Available

AWS Graviton5-based R9g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility, and for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. These instances offer up to a 30% performance improvement and up to a 22% price-performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton4-based instances.

• Performance: Up to 30% improvement
• Price-performance: Up to 22% improvement
• Instance sizes: Nine sizes from large to 48xlarge
• vCPUs: Up to 192
• Memory to vCPU ratio: 8:1
• Networking bandwidth: Up to 100 Gbps
• EBS bandwidth: Up to 72 Gbps

What to do

• Get started through the Amazon RDS Management Console or AWS CLI
• Check supported engine versions in the Aurora and RDS documentation
• Review pricing on the Amazon RDS pricing and Amazon Aurora pricing pages

Source: AWS release notes

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