Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances

Offer up to 45% better price performance over existing Amazon EC2 High Memory (U-1) instances

Why Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i 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 up to 1920 vCPUs. U7i instances offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances. U7inh instances use Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Compute Scale Up Server 3200, and are the first 32TB virtualized instance in cloud with SAP certification for standard sizing for both OLTP and OLAP workloads.

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. U7i instances deliver up to 135% more compute performance and up to 115% higher memory performance over existing U-1 instances.

U7i instances offer up to 160Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth for storage volumes. 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 deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and support ENA Express.

U7i instances (6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32TiB (U7inh) 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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Features

The most memory of any Amazon EC2 instance

Amazon EC2 U7i instances deliver up to 1920 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 U7i (6, 8, 12, 16, 24, and 32 (U7inh) 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 offer significant performance gains compared to existing U-1 instances. 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. U7inh is the highest performing High Memory instance in Amazon EC2 for SAP workloads.

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

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-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
u7inh-32tb.480xlarge	1,920	32,768	EBS-Only	200	160

Customer testimonials

Here is an example of how customers and partners have achieved their business agility, price performance, cost savings, and sustainability goals with Amazon EC2 U7i instances.

SAP

Customers rely on AWS infrastructure to support mission critical SAP workloads. At SAP, we use Amazon EC2 instances to power our offerings such as RISE with SAP. With the recent announcement of the Amazon EC2 U7inh instances that are SAP certified, we look forward to helping customers take advantage of the 32TiB of memory and 1920 vCPUs. U7inh instances deliver the highest compute performance and largest memory sizes at AWS making them perfect for SAP customers who want to migrate to AWS. By migrating their workloads to U7inh instances, SAP customers will be able to take advantage of the security, reliability, and perf from AWS and SAP.

Michael Ameling, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer SAP Business Technology Platform
ZignEx

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