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Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4 (c8g, m8g, r8g, r8gd) instances

Posted on: Apr 23, 2026

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (c8g), general purpose (m8g), and memory optimized (r8g,r8gd) instances.

Amazon Web Services Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than Amazon Web Services Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g offering the best price performance for compute-intensive, general purpose, and memory-intensive workloads respectively. To learn more about Graviton4 improvements, please see the blog on r8g instances and the blog on c8g & m8g instances.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton4 instances are supported for all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10.

Amazon OpenSearch Service supports Graviton4 instances in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

For region specific availability and pricing, visit our pricing page, and for Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page.