Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports M8i and R8i instances
AI Impact Summary
Amazon RDS now supports M8i and R8i instances, leveraging custom Intel Xeon 6 processors for significantly improved performance. These instances offer a 15% better price-performance ratio and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation instances. Technical teams should evaluate migration to these instances to realize the performance gains, particularly for workloads sensitive to CPU and memory bandwidth.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- capability
- Severity
- medium