Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances (opens in new tab) featuring AMD EPYC (Milan) processors. First rolled out in 2006, AWS’s EC2 instances allow users to run virtual machines on the company’s cloud platform. If you’re a fan of running memory-intensive workloads in the cloud then you might be in luck, as AWS says the newest instances are ideal for high-performance database software such as relational databases and noSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches such as Memcached and Redis, and in-memory databases including real-time big data analytics such as Hadoop and Spark clusters.
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