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The Memory Monster EC2 X8i Finally Lands in Asia!

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Today I have good news for anyone who wants to pack in a ton of memory. The big-memory instance family, Amazon EC2 X8i, is now available in new Regions!

What was announced?

This one comes from the AWS What's New feed. The memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in three more Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Tokyo is on the list, so if you run things in Japan, this is a nice one for you!

The story so far

X8i lets you load up on memory, but it was only available in a limited set of Regions. So sometimes you might have thought "I want to use it, but it's not in my Region yet." Now these three Asia Pacific spots join the list, so you can run it closer to home.

What changes

If you run near Tokyo, Seoul, or Malaysia, you can now run memory-hungry workloads with lower latency. X8i shines with things like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) — all the memory-heavy jobs.

Dive Deep

X8i is powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS, and it is SAP-certified. It comes in 14 sizes from large to 96xlarge, two of which are bare metal, and you can go up to 6TB of memory.

Compared to the previous X2i generation, overall performance is up to 43% higher, memory capacity is 1.5x, and memory bandwidth is 3.3x. SAPS performance is up to 50% higher, PostgreSQL is up to 47% faster, Memcached is 88% faster, and AI inference is 46% faster.

For purchasing, you can use Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot instances.

Wrap-up

  • Amazon EC2 X8i is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
  • Custom Intel Xeon 6, SAP-certified, up to 6TB memory, 14 sizes from large to 96xlarge (including two bare metal)
  • Big gains in performance and memory bandwidth over X2i, aimed at SAP HANA and large databases
  • A great update if you want to run big-memory workloads in the Tokyo Region!

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