Posted On: Nov 14, 2023

AWS Graviton2-based R6g and T4g database instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ,EU (Spain), EU (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE) regions for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. These instances are powered by the AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores.

You can launch R6g and T4g instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. Upgrading a database instance to Graviton2 requires a simple instance type modification, using the same steps as any other instance modification. For more details, refer to the documentation.

For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon Aurora pricing page. Review our technical documentation for more details.