Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Posted on: Nov 10, 2025

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB and 16TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge and u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region and 24TB of memory (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region. U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory, U7in-16tb instances offer 16TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7in-24tb instances offer 24TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment.

U7i-12tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7in-16tb and U7in-24tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.