AWS Introduces High Memory U7i Instances to South America for Memory-Intensive Workloads

Amazon EC2’s High Memory U7in-24TB instances became available in São Paulo, offering large DDR5 memory and high network bandwidth for demanding enterprise applications.

By Sofia Reed · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-08-10 · 1 min read

AI-ASSISTED REPORTING · RETROSPECTIVE ARCHIVE

Retrospective edition: 2026-08-10. Source published: 2026-08-10. 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 U7in-24TB instance provides 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, and supports up to 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth alongside 200 Gbps network bandwidth, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids).

These instances target workloads like mission-critical in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, facilitating transaction throughput scaling in data-heavy environments within the South America AWS region.

Source & further reading

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region ↗

Source published 2026-08-10. 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.