Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances

AWS Graviton4-based M8g and R8g database (DB) instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload.

AWS Graviton4 processors are the latest generation of custom-designed AWS Graviton processors built on the AWS Nitro System. Both M8g and R8g DB instances are available with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes. With these new sizes, M8g and R8g DB instances offer up to 192 vCPU, up to 50Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth, and up to 40Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

These instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. For information on specific engine versions that support these DB instance types, please see the Amazon RDS documentation.