AWS has recently announced the general availability (GA) of its new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) High Memory U7inh instance, developed in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). This instance is designed to support large, mission-critical in-memory database workloads, such as SAP HANA.
The U7inh instance operates on HPE’s 16-socket Compute Scale-up Server 3200 and is built on the AWS Nitro System, ensuring, according to the company, a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), it offers 32 terabytes (TB) of memory and 1,920 virtual CPUs (vCPUs), making it the highest compute performance instance in the AWS Cloud for such…