Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances With Up to 12TB Memory Expand Regional Availability

AWS introduced 8TB and 12TB High Memory U7i EC2 instances powered by 4th gen Intel Xeon processors to Hyderabad and Europe (Spain) regions, supporting large-scale in-memory workloads.

By Nina Foster · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-03-11 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-03-11. Source published: 2026-03-11. 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.

These instances deliver up to 896 vCPUs with DDR5 memory, reaching 12 TiB capacity, designed for demanding applications like SAP HANA and large enterprise databases. They provide up to 100 Gbps of both Amazon EBS and network bandwidth with advanced networking features to maximize throughput.

The expansion enables customers with mission-critical in-memory database needs to efficiently scale in these geographic locations, augmenting AWS's global cloud offerings for large data processing and analytic tasks requiring vast memory resources.

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

Source published 2026-03-11. 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.