AWS Brings Memory-Crushing EC2 R8i Instances to Europe

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now live in the Milan region, packing custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with 20% better performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth compared to previous generations. These beasts handle PostgreSQL 30% faster, NGINX 60% faster, and AI workloads 40% faster than R7i—perfect if you're running memory-hungry apps or need serious SAP performance.