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Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions

Published
March 11, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-ec2-high-memory-u7i-instances/

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 8TB of memory (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and are ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases.

  • u7i-8tb.112xlarge: 8TiB of DDR5 memory, 448 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, ENA Express.
  • u7i-12tb.224xlarge: 12TiB of DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth, up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, ENA Express.

To learn more, visit the High Memory instances page.

Source: AWS release notes




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