Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports X2iedn instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts.
Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts.
X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake). X2iedn offers 4x memory compared to R6i upto a maximum of 4TiB, and up to 100 Gbps network throughput to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Compared to equivalent R6i instances, X2iedn instances offer up to 3.5x the transaction throughput for RDS for MySQL and up to 1.8x the transaction throughput for RDS for PostgreSQL.
Amazon RDS X2iedn DB instances are supported on RDS for MySQL version 8.0.28 and higher and RDS for PostgreSQL version 13.7 and higher, and version 14.5 and higher. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. Get started by creating a fully managed X2iedn database instance using the Amazon RDS Management Console.