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Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region

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March 11, 2026
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-ec2-r7gd-instances-available/

Amazon EC2 R7gd Instances Available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory and are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics, and are suitable for applications requiring high-speed, low latency local storage.

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Source: AWS release notes




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