Amazon EC2 R8a instances now available in the Europe (Ireland) region

Amazon EC2 ยท 2026-02-25

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Technical Details

Regions eu-west-1
Cost Impact Decrease
IaC Impact High

What This Means

For DevOps Teams

Update your infrastructure to include Amazon EC2 R8a instances, leveraging their higher performance and better price-performance for memory-intensive workloads, and ensure your IaC templates are adjusted to utilize these new instance types.

For Platform Teams

Adopt Amazon EC2 R8a instances to enhance your platform's compute capabilities, providing 45% more memory bandwidth and up to 60% faster performance for GroovyJVM, thereby improving the overall performance and efficiency of your applications.

For Executives

Evaluate deploying Amazon EC2 R8a instances to achieve up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance, enhancing business-critical applications and reducing operational costs.

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