Posted On: Feb 8, 2023

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge and u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. Customers can start using these High Memory instances with On Demand and Reserved Instance purchase options.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the SAP HANA certified instances.

EC2 High Memory instances are EBS-Optimized by default, and offer 38 Gbps of dedicated storage bandwidth to EBS volumes. EC2 High Memory instances deliver high networking throughput and low-latency with 100 Gbps of aggregate network bandwidth using Amazon Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced Networking. These instances are powered by an 8-socket platform with 2.1 GHz (with Turbo Boost to 3.80 GHz) Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Skylake 8176M) or 2nd Generation 2.7 GHz (with Turbo Boost to 4.0 GHz) Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake 8280L) with 448 vCPUs.

For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on Amazon Web Services to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To get started with EC2 High Memory instances, use our Contact Us page.