Amazon EC2 R5 and R5d instances now Available in 8 Additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R5 instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, London), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), and GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions. This is in addition to the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) AWS regions where R5 instances were already available since July 25th, 2018.
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R5 instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, London), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), and GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions. This is in addition to the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) AWS regions where R5 instances were already available since July 25th, 2018.
Amazon EC2 R5d instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), US West (N. California) and Canada (Central) AWS regions. This is in addition to the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS regions where R5d instances were already available since July 25th, 2018.
Amazon EC2 R5 instances are ideally suited for applications such as high-performance databases, distributed in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and big data analytics. R5 instances offer Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series processors with a sustained all core frequency of up to 3.1 GHz, with up to 50% more vCPUs and 60% more memory over R4 instances. For more information, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r5/.