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Thursday, November 12, 2026

AWS Graviton5 R9g instances now available for Aurora and RDS

AWS has launched Graviton5-based R9g database instances for Amazon Aurora and RDS, delivering up to 30% performance gains and 22% better price-performance compared to Graviton4. The new instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB with configurations up to 192 vCPUs and 100 Gbps networking.

source: [aws/whats-new]