Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions

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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time…

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