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Optimizing Epic on AWS: R8i instances deliver 20-30% cost savings with enhanced SMP performance

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This article announces the availability of Amazon EC2 r8i.96xlarge instances optimized for Epic healthcare workloads on AWS.

  • r8i.96xlarge delivers 20-30% cost savings versus u7i-6tb.112xlarge instances
  • Supports Enterprise Cache Protocol deployments up to 110 million global references per second
  • 11% SMP performance improvement, achieving 49 million GRefs/s
  • Features 384 vCPUs and 3TB memory—double previous generation capacity
  • Custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with highest memory bandwidth
  • Sub-millisecond latency with Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes
  • Built on AWS Nitro System for enhanced security and performance

The r8i.96xlarge instance provides healthcare organizations significant cost optimization and performance improvements for large-scale Epic deployments.



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