<p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle</a> now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions. Both M8i and R8i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary), and R8i instances are now available in Europe (Milan, Stockholm, and Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv).</p>
<p>These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and R8i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.</p>
<p>M8i and R8i instances are available for Amazon RDS for Oracle in Bring Your Own License model for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) and Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2). For EE, instances are available in sizes from large to 48xlarge, as well as bare metal sizes metal-48xl and metal-96xl. For SE2, instances are available in sizes from large to 4xlarge and bare metal sizes metal-48xl and metal-96xl. Refer to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/pricing/">Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing</a> for available instance configurations, pricing, and region availability.</p>
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances in additional AWS Regions
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