Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances

UpdateSep 30, 20263 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 2, 2026

Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in R8a database instances corresponds to a physical CPU core, which delivers consistent per-core performance.

Topics: Pricing, Postgres, Developer tools, Regions, Performance

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