Posted On: Aug 17, 2022
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Additionally, high memory instances with 6TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region and instances with 3TB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.
Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
All High Memory instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) AWS regions. Additionally, instances with 3TB of memory (u-3tb1.56xlarge) are now available in the South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Milan) regions. Instances with 6TB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are also available in the US East (Ohio), AWS GovCloud (US), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney), and Europe (Paris, Stockholm) regions. Instances with 12TB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are additionally available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. For more information, visit the Amazon EC2 High Memory page.
For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.