AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4 based (c8g,m8g,r8g and r8gd) instances

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (C8g), general purpose (M8g), and memory optimized (R8g, R8gd) instances.

AWS Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than AWS Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g & r8gd offering the best price performance for compute-intensive, general purpose, and memory-intensive workloads respectively. To learn more about Graviton4 improvements, please see the blog on r8g instances and the blog on c8g & m8g instances.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton4 instances are supported on all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10.

One or more than one Graviton4 instance types are now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 23 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), South America(Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service and its capabilities, visit our product page.

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