Amazon RDS for Oracle Adds Support for Custom Intel-Powered M8i and R8i Instances

New Intel Xeon 6 processor-based M8i and R8i instances enhance Oracle database performance and memory bandwidth.

By Noah Ellis · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-04-07 · 1 min read

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Retrospective edition: 2026-04-07. Source published: 2026-04-07. 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.

Amazon RDS for Oracle expanded instance offerings to include M8i and R8i, equipped with custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. These instances provide improved performance metrics, including up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5 times increased memory bandwidth compared to prior Intel-based instances.

Offered under Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2, customers can upgrade existing or deploy new database instances using AWS Management Console or SDKs. The new instance types enhance workload capacity for Oracle databases on AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances ↗

Source published 2026-04-07. 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.