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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