Starting February 21, 2025, the maximum storage capacity of primary and read-only RDS for MySQL instances that use local disks is increased to 8,000 GB.
Effective date
February 21, 2025
Applicable scope
This adjustment of maximum storage capacity applies to primary and read-only RDS for MySQL instances that use local disks and meet the following conditions:
The instance type contains 32 or more CPU cores.
The instance type is not phased out.
After this adjustment, you can expand the storage capacity of instances that meet the preceding conditions to up to 8,000 GB as required.
Affected instance types
The following table describes the instance types that are applicable to this adjustment.
Primary instance types
Edition | Instance family | Instance type | CPU and memory | Storage capacity |
High-availability Edition | Dedicated | mysql.x4.4xlarge.2 | 32 cores, 128 GB | 1,000 GB to 8,000 GB |
mysql.x4.8xlarge.2 | 64 cores, 256 GB | |||
mysql.x8.4xlarge.2 | 32 cores, 256 GB | |||
mysql.x8.8xlarge.2 | 64 cores, 512 GB | |||
Dedicated host | rds.mysql.st.h43 | 60 cores, 470 GB | 3,000 GB to 8,000 GB | |
rds.mysql.st.v52 | 90 cores, 720 GB | 1,000 GB to 8,000 GB |
Read-only instance types
Edition | Major engine version | Instance family | Instance type | CPU and memory | Storage capacity |
High-availability Edition | 8.0, 5.7, and 5.6 | Dedicated (with a large amount of memory) | mysqlro.x8.4xlarge.1 | 32 cores, 256 GB | 1,000 GB to 8,000 GB |
mysqlro.x8.8xlarge.1 | 64 cores, 512 GB | ||||
Dedicated (with a large number of CPU cores) | mysqlro.x4.4xlarge.1 | 32 cores, 128 GB | |||
mysqlro.x4.8xlarge.1 | 64 cores, 256 GB | ||||
Dedicated host | rds.mysql.st.h43 | 60 cores, 470 GB | 3,000 GB to 8,000 GB | ||
rds.mysql.st.v52 | 90 cores, 720 GB | 1,000 GB to 8,000 GB |