Posted On: Feb 16, 2023

Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iedn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and delivers improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1e instances. X2iedn instances have a memory to vCPU ratio of 32:1 and are great fit for memory-intensive workloads such as databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2iedn instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2iedn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.

X2iedn instances offer up to 80 Gbps bandwidth and 260K IOPS for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and are designed to meet the reliability needs of mission-critical workloads. X2iedn is available in six different virtualized sizes, xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xlarge, 16xlarge, 24xlarge and 32xlarge and as a bare metal instance. The X2iedn instance is built on the AWS Nitro System that offloads many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware, delivering high performance, high availability, and highly-secure cloud instances. 

With this launch, X2iedn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US). X2iedn will be available for purchase with Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Convertible Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances, or as Dedicated instances or Dedicated hosts. To learn more, visit the EC2 X2i Instances Page, or connect with your AWS Support contacts.