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Amazon RDS and Aurora expand R8gd and M8gd to additional Regions

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AWS·19 hours ago · Jul 15, 2026, 05:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Added R8gd instances to 12 new regions and M8gd instances to 6 new regions for Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.
R8gd/M8gd deliver up to 165% higher throughput and 120% better price‑performance than R6g, with Optimized Reads using local NVMe SSD to reduce query latency and speed index rebuilds.
Customers can enable Optimized Reads via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK by selecting the new instance types.

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