AWS Brings AMD EPYC Power to Aurora and RDS with New R8a Instances

Amazon Aurora and RDS now support R8a instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, giving you up to 75 Gbps network bandwidth and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth for demanding database workloads. These instances are rolling out across major regions including US, Canada, Asia Pacific, and Europe, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB engines.