Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances
Offer up to 45% better price performance over existing Amazon EC2 High Memory (U-1) instances
Amazon EC2 U7i instances are powered by 1.9 GHz (Turbo Boost to 2.90 GHz) 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and support 896 vCPUs. U7i instances are the first DDR5 memory based 8-socket offering by a leading cloud provider and offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances.
These instances are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases, including production deployments of the SAP HANA in-memory database, in the cloud. U7i instances allow you to run large in-memory databases and business applications that rely on these databases in the same, shared Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), reducing the management overhead associated with complex networking and ensuring predictable performance.
These instances offer significant performance gains compared to existing U-1 instances. Amazon EC2 U7i instances deliver 135% more compute performance and up to 115% higher memory performance over existing U-1 instances, enabling customers to process more transactions per second.
U7i instances offer up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes, 2.5x the bandwidth vs U-1 instances. This includes support for io2 Block Express to support IO-intensive use cases such as data hydration, backup/restore, facilitating up to 2.5x faster restart times compared to existing U-1 instances. U7i instances also deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express.
U7i instances (12,16, and 24 TiB sizes) are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments
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Benefits
Best price performance for general purpose workloads in Amazon EC2
M7g instances deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based M6g. They are ideal for general purpose applications, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets.
Enhanced security and maximized resource efficiency
M7g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The AWS Nitro System is a combination of dedicated hardware and a lightweight hypervisor that delivers isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. AWS Graviton3 processors offer enhanced security with always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. These instances also support encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.
Extensive software support
AWS Graviton-based instances are supported by many Linux operating systems, including Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu. Many popular applications and services for security, monitoring and management, containers, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) from AWS and software partners also support AWS Graviton-based instances. The AWS Graviton Ready program offers certified solutions from partner software vendors that you can use on AWS Graviton-based instances.
Features
The most memory of any Amazon EC2 instance
Amazon EC2 U7i instances deliver 896 vCPUs and support up to 32TiB of memory. These instances are purpose-built for large in-memory databases like SAP HANA. EC2 High Memory instances (12, 16, and 24 TiB sizes) are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA (SoH), the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments.
Built on the AWS Nitro System
The AWS Nitro System is a rich collection of building blocks that offloads many of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated hardware and software. It delivers high performance, high availability, and high security, reducing virtualization overhead.
High performance
Amazon EC2 U7i instances are the first ever Amazon EC2 instances built on 8-socket hosts powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors. They offer significant performance gains compared to existing U-1 instances. Amazon U7i instances deliver 135% more compute performance, up to 115% higher memory performance, up to 2x the network bandwidth, and 2.5x the EBS bandwidth vs existing U-1 instances.
Flexibility to scale
As customers scale up to larger in-memory database sizes, Amazon EC2 U7i instances extend the number of choices available to customers by offering additional sizes and room for growth. Customers can start with smaller instance sizes, and easily transition to larger sizes when their data outgrows the instance.
Product Details
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Amazon EC2 U7i instances offer up to 32 TiB of memory in a single instance to deliver scalable and elastic infrastructure capabilities for large in-memory databases such as SAP Hana.
Instance Size vCPU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) u7i-12tb.224xlarge
896
12,288
EBS-Only
100
60
u7in-16tb.224xlarge
896
16,384
EBS-Only
200
100
u7in-24tb.224xlarge
896
24,576
EBS-Only
200
100
u7in-32tb.224xlarge
896
32,768
EBS-Only
200
100
Instance Size vCPU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage (GB) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) EBS Bandwidth (Gbps) u7i-6tb.112xlarge
448
6,144
EBS-Only
100
60
u7i-8tb.112xlarge
448
8,192
EBS-Only
100
60
u7i-12tb.224xlarge
896
12,288
EBS-Only
100
60
u7in-16tb.224xlarge
896
16,384
EBS-Only
200
100
u7in-24tb.224xlarge
896
24,576
EBS-Only
200
100
u7in-32tb.224xlarge
896
32,768
EBS-Only
200
100
Customer Testimonials
ZignEx is a logistics software company that offers route planning and execution services. We leverage operations research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science to deliver enterprise software solutions. Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances have helped us scale transaction processing throughput for our compute-intensive and high memory operational tasks. By using U7i-12tb.224xlarge instances we were able to obtain a 50% reduction in processing times. This efficiency boost, combined with the networking and storage capabilities AWS offers, has resulted in an overall improvement in data processing and responsiveness timelines. We believe that U7i instances will continue to be a key resource for us and are excited to leverage them for our most resource intensive projects.
Dr. Surya N Sahoo, Ph.D., P.E., President & CEO, ZignEx
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