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AWS brings R8g memory-focused instances to Germany sovereign cloud region

AWS announced that EC2 R8g instances are now available in its European Sovereign Cloud region in Germany, adding Graviton4-powered compute for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches and real-time data analytics. The family offers 12 sizes, including two bare metal sizes, with configurations reaching 48xlarge and 1.5TB of memory. Network bandwidth reaches up to 50 Gbps, and bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store reaches up to 40 Gbps. AWS claims performance gains over Graviton3-based R7g instances of up to 30% for web applications, 40% for databases and 45% for large Java applications.
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