Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8g and M8g in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Additionally, M8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Both instance families are available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
Amazon Graviton4-based instances provide up to 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes, depending on database engine, version, and workload. Built on the Amazon Nitro System, the new R8g database instances introduce 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes, delivering up to 192 vCPUs, an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU with the latest DDR5 memory, up to 50Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth, and up to 40Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
You can easily launch R8g and M8g, database instances through the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI). For detailed information about specific engine versions that support these database instance types, please refer to the Aurora and RDS documentation. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon Aurora and RDS pricing page.