Introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh Instance

Amazon Web Services is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance run on 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance offers 32TB of memory with 1920 vCPUs. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for running large, compute-intensive in-memory database workloads such as SAP HANA.

U7inh instance is certified by SAP for running SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, and Business Warehouse on HANA in production environments. For details, see the SAP HANA Hardware Directory.

U7inh instance enables 160Gbps of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes including io2 Block Express to support IO-intensive use cases such as data hydration, backup and restore. In addition, the instance supports up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express.

U7inh instance is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions for purchase via a 3-Yr Savings Plan. To learn more, visit the U7i instances page.