New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases

Today we're announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance runs on the 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances.

Powered by the fourth generation Intel^® Xeon^® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance supports 32 TB of memory and 1920 vCPUs. This instance offers the highest compute performance, largest compute and memory size in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for running large, mission-critical database workloads, like 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 benefit from the flexibility, scalability, reliability, and cost advantages that AWS offers.

As customers continue to scale their business applications, they wanted the performance combined with the additional CPUs and memory along with SAP certification to generate real-time business insights. Other customers that currently run on-premises with HPE servers have also asked how we can help them migrate to AWS to take advantage of cloud benefits while continuing to use HPE hardware.

Here are the detailed specs of new U7inh instance:

U7inh instance offers up to two times vCPUs and 1.6 times EBS bandwidth in a single instance, compared with 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.

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 include: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 for SAP and above and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6/9.0 for SAP and above.

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 production environments. U7inh instance is also certified for scale-out SAP HANA OLTP workloads such as S/4HANA and customers can deploy up to four U7inh instance (128TB) in a cluster for even larger SAP HANA workloads.

To learn more about how to migrate, visit Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance in the SAP HANA on AWS Guides and AWS Launch Wizard for SAP in the AWS Launch Wizard User Guide.

Now available
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 send feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

- Channy