Amazon Web Services Inc. late Wednesday announced new server instances for customers running data-intensive in-memory databases such as SAP SE’s Hana platform on its cloud.

The new EC2 instances come with 4 terabytes of dedicated DDR4 memory. They’re currently available in Amazon’s U.S. East, U.S. West, Asia Pacific and EU regions, the company said. Customers can use the instances on demand, or reserve them through the AWS Marketplace, Management Console, Command Line Interfaces or its software development kits.

The new instances have already been certified to run SAP Hana, and are also capable of running Apache Spark and other hardware-intensive, high-performance applications, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog post.

The instances are powered by Intel Corp.’s new Xeon E7 8880 chips and sport two 1,920 gigabyte solid-state drives, as well as 14Gbps networking links to Amazon Elastic Block Store, and 25Gbps links to other instances within a single placement group.

“Many of our customers are already running production SAP applications on the existing x1.32xlarge instances,” Barr added. “With today’s launch, these customers can now store and process far larger data sets, making them a great fit for larger production deployments.”

Amazon has been steadily beefing up the memory capacity of its compute instances in order to satisfy its customer’s growing appetite for in-memory databases such as SAP Hana. The company introduced its 2TB instances only last year, and in May said it plans to ramp up capacity to 16TB in the near future.

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