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Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn Land in Paris and Canada Central!

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Hi there, it's Shiichan! Here's an update about AWS instances landing in more regions.

AWS What's New aws.amazon.com

What was announced?

According to AWS What's New, Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central).

R6in and R6idn are sixth-generation network-optimized instances built on 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System. They're designed for workloads like memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed in-memory caches such as Memcached and Redis, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real-time big data analytics with Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark.

The story so far

R6in and R6idn were already available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). But if your infrastructure lived in Paris or Canada, these instances weren't an option yet.

What changes

Engineers running infrastructure in Paris or Canada Central can now pick R6in and R6idn directly. Running memory-intensive workloads in a nearby region helps with both latency and data residency.

Dive Deep

The spec sheet is pretty strong.

  • Up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth (2x more than the 5th generation)
  • Up to 2x the packet-processing performance versus the 5th generation
  • 10 instance sizes including bare metal, up to 128 vCPUs and 1024 GiB of memory
  • Up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth, up to 400K IOPS
  • Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support on 32xlarge and metal sizes
  • R6idn instances add up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage

Wrap-up

  • Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn are now available in Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central)
  • Up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 2x the packet-processing performance versus the 5th generation
  • Built for memory-intensive databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics
  • Great for engineers running network- and memory-heavy workloads in Paris or Canada Central!

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