Expanded Availability of Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances

AWS extended its 7th generation High Memory U7i instances with up to 16 TiB memory to additional global regions, supporting mission-critical in-memory database workloads.

By Oliver Grant · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-01-16 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-01-16. Source published: 2026-01-16. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

In early 2026, AWS made U7i-6tb, U7i-8tb, and U7in-16tb instances available in regions including Asia Pacific (Thailand, Sydney, Singapore), Canada (Central), GovCloud (US-East), and South America (Sao Paulo). Powered by custom Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors and DDR5 memory, these instances provide up to 896 vCPUs and high networking bandwidth, optimized for large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA and Oracle.

The expanded regional presence facilitates data residency compliance and low-latency access for customers scaling transaction processing. High throughput EBS support and enhanced networking features like ENA Express make these instances suitable for demanding enterprise workloads requiring substantial memory capacity.

Source & further reading

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions ↗

Source published 2026-01-16. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.