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Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7inh instance, a new addition to the EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The Amazon EC2 U7inh instance runs on a 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200 and is built on AWS Nitro to provide a fully integrated and managed environment consistent with other EC2 instances.
Powered by fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), the U7inh instance supports 32 TB of memory and 1920 vCPUs. This instance offers the highest computing power, largest processing power and memory size in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for running large mission-critical database workloads such as SAP HANA.
In May 2024, we launched U7i instances to support up to 896 vCPUs and up to 32 TB of memory, which our enterprise customers could use to successfully migrate their large mission-critical in-memory databases to AWS and take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, reliability, and cost advantages that AWS offers.
As customers continue to scale their enterprise applications, they wanted the performance combined with additional CPU and memory, along with SAP certification, to generate real-time business insights. Other customers who currently run on-premises with HPE servers have also asked how we can help them migrate to AWS so they can enjoy the benefits of the cloud while still using HPE hardware.
Here are the detailed specifications of the new U7inh instance:
| The name of the instance | vCPU | Memory (DDR5) | EBS bandwidth | Network bandwidth |
| U7inh-32tb.480xlarge | 1920 | 32,768 GiB | 160 Gbps | 200 Gbps |
The U7inh instance offers up to 2x the vCPU and 1.6x the EBS bandwidth in a single instance compared to the largest U7i instance. You can run your largest in-memory database workloads like SAP HANA or seamlessly migrate workloads running on HPE hardware to AWS.
The U7inh instance supports Amazon Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server. Operating system support for SAP HANA workloads on high memory instances includes: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 for SAP and higher and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6/9.0 for SAP and higher.
The U7inh instance is SAP certified to run Business Suite on HANA (SoH), Business Suite S/4HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA (BW) and SAP BW/4HANA in a production environment. The U7inh instance is also certified for scalable SAP HANA OLTP workloads such as S/4HANA, and customers can deploy up to four U7inh instances (128 TB) in a cluster for even larger SAP HANA workloads.
To learn more about how to perform the migration, visit Migrating SAP HANA to AWS to an EC2 High Memory instance in the SAP HANA on AWS and AWS Launch Wizard for SAP guides in the AWS Launch Wizard user guide.
Now available
The Amazon EC2 U7inh instance is available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS regions.
To learn more, visit the U7i instance product page and submit feedback on AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS support contacts.
— Channy