Amazon Web Services announced general availability of a new high frequency instance (z1d) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as well as the memory optimized instances (R5) and memory optimized instances with local storage (R5d). z1d instances are designed for workloads requiring the performance along with a large amount of memory – these are workloads such as electronic design automation (EDA), relational databases, and financial simulations.

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