How Amazon DocumentDB on AWS Graviton4 R8g instances delivers 63% better Sysbench benchmark results
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This article demonstrates that Amazon DocumentDB on AWS Graviton4 R8g instances delivers significantly better performance than Graviton2 R6g instances with minimal cost increase.
- R8g instances show 63% better Sysbench execution performance versus R6g at only 5% cost increase
- R8g.xlarge: 305 transactions/sec vs R6g.xlarge: 187 transactions/sec (63.1% improvement)
- R8g.4xlarge: 1,023 transactions/sec vs R6g.4xlarge: 688 transactions/sec (48.7% improvement)
- R8g offers up to 192 vCPUs and 1.5TB memory, three times more than R6g
- Features DDR5-5600 memory, 50 Gbps network bandwidth, and 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio
- Database Savings Plans reduce R8g costs by additional 20%
- Available for DocumentDB versions 5.0 and 8.0 up to 16xlarge instances
AWS Graviton4 R8g instances provide exceptional price-performance value for DocumentDB workloads, enabling better performance or cost optimization through downsizing.
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