In July 2026, AWS made the seventh-generation High Memory U7i instance type available in its Europe (Zurich) region. These instances provide up to 12TiB of DDR5 memory and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). Designed to support mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle, the U7i-12tb.224xlarge instance offers 896 virtual CPUs and high-speed networking with up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage and network bandwidth.
The U7i instances aim to enable customers to handle rapidly growing transactional data environments with scalable memory and compute resources. The combination of large memory capacity and fast I/O supports database workloads requiring substantial memory footprint and throughput.
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Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region ↗Source published 2026-07-07. 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.