Amazon EC2 R8a Instances Land in Canada with Serious Performance Gains
AWS just dropped EC2 R8a instances in Canada (Central), packing 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors that crush the previous R7a generation with up to 30% better performance and 45% more memory bandwidth. If you're running memory-heavy workloads like databases, in-memory caches, or real-time analytics, these new instances deliver up to 60% faster performance for GroovyJVM and 38% more SAPS for SAP applications.
source: [aws/whats-new]