Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton3-based R7g in AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Graviton3-based instances provide up to a 30% performance improvement over Graviton2-based instances on RDS for open-source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload.
Graviton3 processors offer several improvements over the second-generation Graviton2 processors. Graviton3-based R7g is the first AWS database instances to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4, enabling high-speed access to data in memory. R7g database instances offer up to 30Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). R7g on Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB will also support Optimized Writes. With Optimized Writes you can improve write throughout by up to 2x at no additional cost.
R7g database instances are supported on RDS for MySQL versions 8.0 and 8.4, RDS for PostgreSQL versions 13.4 (and higher), 14.5 (and higher), 15, 16 and 17 and RDS for MariaDB versions 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.11 and 11.4. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Get started using the Amazon RDS Management Console.
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