Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional AWS regions. M6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. R6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo) and US West (N. California). R5b instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), South America (Sao Paulo).
Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional AWS regions. M6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. R6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo) and US West (N. California). R5b instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), South America (Sao Paulo).
M6i and R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, delivering improved compute price performance over equivalent M5 and R5 instances. To meet customer demands for increased scalability, M6i and R6i instances provide a new instance size of 32xlarge with 128 vCPUs and 33% more memory than the largest M5 and R5 instances. M6i.32xlarge has 512 GiB of memory and R6i.32xlarge has 1,024 GiB of memory. They also provide up to 20% higher memory bandwidth per vCPU compared to the previous 5th generation instances. These instances give customers up to 50 Gbps of networking speed and 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store, 2x that of M5 and R5 instances.
R5b instance types, powered by the AWS Nitro System, are available in 8 sizes with up to 96 vCPUs and 768 gigabytes of memory. R5b instance types are ideally suited for relational database workloads, delivering up to 60 gigabytes per second of EBS-optimized bandwidth and 64,000 IOPS, an increase of up to 3X over R5 instance types. The increase in EBS-optimized performance enables large databases to migrate to Amazon RDS. In addition, existing Amazon RDS customers can migrate their DB Instances to smaller-sized R5b instances and still meet their workload IOPS requirements, saving on compute and licensing costs.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.