Amazon EC2 R6a instances now available in Canada (Central)

Posted on: Feb 18, 2025

Starting today, the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region. R6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable R5a instances. These instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances.

With this additional region, R6a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Northern Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). These instances can be purchased as Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit the R6a instances pages.