Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8id and R8id instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports M8id and R8id instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, and include local NVMe SSD storage. They scale up to 384 vCPUs, 3 TiB of memory, and 22.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. That's 4x the vCPUs and memory and more than 6x the local storage of M5d and R5d instances. When you create or modify a DB instance to use M8id or R8id, RDS for SQL Server automatically places…

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