Amazon DocumentDB adds R8g instances with Graviton4 processors
Amazon DocumentDB now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and DDR5 memory. These instances offer higher throughput and larger memory capacity, enabling more demanding workloads and improving performance for memory-intensive applications. Customers can adopt these new instances by modifying or creating DocumentDB clusters, with availability for DocumentDB 5.0+.
- →Support for R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
- →Availability and adoption
Features (1) ›
- Support for R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
Amazon DocumentDB now offers R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances, featuring AWS Graviton4 processors and DDR5 memory. These instances provide higher throughput and support larger memory working sets, suitable for demanding transactional and document processing workloads.
Notes (1) ›
- Availability and adoption
New R8g instances are available for Amazon DocumentDB 5.0+ on both Standard and IO-Optimized storage configurations. Customers can deploy them via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK when creating new clusters or modifying existing ones.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-documentdb-r8g-24xl-48xl/
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