Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3, 6, 9, and 12TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge), 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge), and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.

With this regional expansion, High Memory instances with 3TiB, 6TiB, 9TiB, and 12TiB of memory are now all available in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Instances with 3TiB of memory are also available in the South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Milan) regions. Instances with 6TiB of memory are also available in Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), US East (Ohio), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. Instances with 9TiB of memory are also available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions. Instances with 12TiB of memory are also available in US East (Ohio), AWS GovCloud (US-West), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.

For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.