Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Launch in Milan Region

AWS introduced 7th generation High Memory U7i instances with custom Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors in Europe’s Milan data center.

By Ethan Blake · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-03-26 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-03-26. Source published: 2026-03-26. 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.

The Amazon EC2 U7i instances provide substantial memory capacity with options for 8 TiB and 12 TiB of DDR5 RAM paired with 448 and 896 vCPUs respectively. These configurations target high-demand in-memory database applications like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, aiming to enhance transaction processing throughput.

Offering 100 Gbps for both network bandwidth and Amazon EBS, plus ENA Express network acceleration, these instance types support heavy data load and backup operations. Availability in Milan marks AWS’s expansion of high-memory instances in the Europe region, facilitating enterprise analytics and transactional workloads.

Source & further reading

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in Europe (Milan) ↗

Source published 2026-03-26. 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.