Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances for large in-memory databases

The article introduces Amazon EC2 U7i instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, designed for large in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Specifications of the U7i instance types with varying memory and network bandwidth configurations
• Performance improvements over previous generation high memory instances, including 135% more compute performance, up to 115% more memory performance, and 2.5x the EBS bandwidth
• Support for ENA Express for improved network latency and per-flow performance
• Ability to attach up to 128 EBS volumes, including io2 Block Express volumes up to 64 TiB and 256K IOPS
• SAP certification for running various SAP applications in production environments
• Availability in select AWS Regions and supported operating systems
• Upcoming plans for even larger instances with increased compute later in the year