Posted On: Sep 20, 2023

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i, R6i, and R5b instances in additional regions. M6i instances for RDS for Oracle will now be available in 9 new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). R6i instances for RDS for Oracle will now be available in 8 new regions: Africa (Capetown), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka), Europe (Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). R5b instances for RDS for Oracle will now be available in 6 new regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo).

M6i and R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, delivering improved compute price performance over equivalent M5 and R5 instances. Both M6i and R6i instances are available in 9 sizes with up to 128 vCPUs and 1024 gigabytes of memory. R5b instances deliver up to 60 gigabytes per second of EBS-optimized bandwidth and up to 256,000 IOPS for relational database workloads that require high IO. R5b instances are available in 8 sizes with up to 96 vCPUs and 768 gigabytes of memory. You can launch the new instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI.

Amazon RDS for Oracle allows you to set up, operate, and scale Oracle database deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing for up-to-date pricing and regional availability.