Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now offer Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances

Customers running Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDBdatabases can now purchase Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and the latest DDR5 memory.

Reserved Instances offer significant savings over On-Demand rates with three flexible payment options: All Upfront providing the highest discount, Partial Upfront balancing between upfront and hourly payments, and No Upfront requiring no initial payment. Reserved Instances provide instance size flexibility within the same family and automatically apply to both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ configurations, making them ideal for varying production workloads.

These 1-year Reserved Instances are available for Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, and RDS for MariaDB in all AWS regions where R7i and M7i instances are offered with On-Demand pricing. For information on specific engine versions that support these DB instance types, refer to Aurora and RDS documentation.

To get started, purchase Reserved Instances through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. For detailed pricing information and purchase options, visit Aurora and RDS pricing pages. For additional questions related to Reserved Instances, refer to RDS FAQs.