- Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in the Canada (Central) region.
- Powered by 5th‑Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) CPUs up to 4.5 GHz, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price‑performance compared to R7a.
- Provides up to 45% more memory bandwidth and 60% faster GroovyJVM, targeting latency‑sensitive, memory‑intensive workloads such as databases, caches, analytics, and EDA.
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
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