Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Expand Availability and Scale With Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs

AWS increased availability of High Memory U7i instances offering up to 24 TiB DDR5 RAM, optimized for large in-memory database workloads with 7th-gen Intel Xeon processors.

By Clara Morgan · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-04-24 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-04-24. Source published: 2026-04-24. 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 2026, Amazon EC2 widened regional access to High Memory U7i instances, including 8TB variants in Europe (Stockholm, Zurich), and up to 24TB in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Stockholm). These instances use custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids CPUs, delivering up to 896 vCPUs and support up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.

They target mission-critical, memory-intensive applications such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server databases. Enhanced memory capacities combined with high network and EBS throughput enable accelerated data processing and backup operations for large-scale enterprise workloads.

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

Source published 2026-04-24. 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.