AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle offers Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances with up to 46% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with 192 vCPUs and 1536 GiB of latest DDR5 memory.

Reserved instance benefits apply to both Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations. This means that customers can move freely between configurations within the same database instance class type, making them ideal for varying production workloads. Amazon RDS for Oracle Reserved Instances also provide size flexibility for the Oracle database engine under the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing model. With size flexibility, discounted rate for Reserved Instances will automatically apply to usage of any size in the same instance family.

Customers can now purchase Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS Oracle in all AWS regions where R7i and M7i instances are available. For information on specific Oracle database editions and licensing options that support these database instance types, refer to the Amazon RDS user guide.

To get started, purchase Reserved Instances through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. For detailed pricing information and purchase options, visit the Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing page.

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