Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances

The article introduces the new Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances, which are the first DDR5 memory-based 8-socket offering by a leading cloud provider.

Specifically, the article covers:

• U7i instances offer up to 32TiB of memory and 896 vCPUs, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids)
• The instances provide twice as many vCPUs, delivering more than 135% compute performance and up to 45% better price performance versus existing U-1 instances
• They are ideal for running large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, as well as compute-intensive workloads like large language models
• U7i instances are available in four sizes with 12TiB, 16TiB, 24TiB, and 32TiB memory, and offer up to 100Gbps of EBS bandwidth and up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth
• They are available in several AWS regions, and are certified by SAP for running various SAP solutions in production environments