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Amazon EC2 R9g/R9gd Graviton5 memory-optimized instances now GA

2026-09-01 15:20 UTC · AWS What's New · read the source ↗ #aws#ec2#graviton
  • Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA Graviton5 memory-optimized instances offer up to 25% better compute and 30% faster database performance vs R8g; evaluate migrating memory-intensive workloads (Kubernetes nodes, caches, databases) this quarter to capture the price-performance gains.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Learn: Graviton5 R9g instances establish a new price-performance ceiling for memory-intensive workloads on AWS; useful context for future FinOps and instance-family standardization decisions but no forcing function today.
  • Signals: GA announcement
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