AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (London) Regions and R8g database instances in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. 

Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload.

M8g and R8g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 17.1 and higher, 16.1 and higher, 15.2 and higher, 14.5 and higher, and 13.8 and higher. M8g and R8g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for MySQL version 8.0.32 and higher, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB version 11.4.3 and higher, 10.11.7 and higher, 10.6.13 and higher, 10.5.20 and higher, and 10.4.29 and higher. For more details on these instances and supported versions for each region, refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide. Get started by creating a fully managed M8g or R8g database instance using the Amazon RDS Management Console.

For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page. For information on specific engine versions that support these DB instance types, please see the Amazon RDS documentation.

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