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🔥 Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD, are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors for up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3, and are built on the AWS Nitro System. They include up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth, up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, configurable bandwidth weighting, and EFA support on the largest sizes.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. These instances deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances and are optimized for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8g instances offer enhanced performance and security with larger sizes, higher vCPU and memory configurations, and increased networking and EBS bandwidth.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gb instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in multiple US, EU, and Africa regions. These instances deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based instances and provide increased EBS throughput (up to 300 Gbps) and IOPS. Instance sizes scale up to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and up to 400 Gbps networking; select sizes support EFA for lower latency in tightly coupled clusters. Use cases include high-performance file systems and other storage- and network-intensive workloads.

⚙️ Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. These instances deliver up to 40% higher performance and up to 25% better price performance versus Hpc7a, with up to 42% higher memory bandwidth. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, Hpc8a targets tightly coupled, latency-sensitive HPC workloads like CFD, weather forecasting, and FEA.

🚀 Amazon Redshift now lets customers query Amazon S3 data lake tables in a different AWS Region while keeping query traffic within their VPC using enhanced VPC routing. The integrated data lake query engine runs on RG provisioned and Serverless cluster compute, avoiding public networks and supporting compliance needs. Cross‑Region queries remove the need to copy or replicate data, simplify global analytics, and incur standard data transfer charges.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations let you secure capacity up to 120 days ahead by specifying capacity, start date, and commitment duration. You can now postpone a reservation start date if plans change; EC2 provides a quote showing the updated start date and any adjusted commitment duration. After you accept the quote, EC2 updates the reservation with the new start date. The feature is available to all Future-dated Capacity Reservation customers; check regional availability in AWS documentation.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x higher memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based generations. M8i offers SAP-certified sizes up to 96xlarge and two bare-metal options, while M8i‑flex provides common sizes from large to 16xlarge for general-purpose workloads.

🔔 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations. R8i provides large sizes including 96xlarge and SAP certification, while R8i-flex offers memory‑optimized Flex sizes for common memory-intensive workloads. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, they deliver improved price-performance and significantly higher memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. C8i-flex targets common compute workloads with sizes up to 16xlarge, while C8i offers 13 sizes including bare metal and a new 96xlarge for large memory demands.

🚀 Amazon EMR launches Long Term Support (LTS) starting with emr-spark-8.1.0, which includes Apache Spark 4.1 and offers 36 months of support for designated AWS Spark runtimes. The release adds full support for Apache Iceberg v3, expanded fine-grained access control for Iceberg and Delta VACUUM operations, and Spark SQL improvements for catalog discovery and cross-account catalogs. emr-spark-8.1.0 is available across Amazon EMR on EC2, EKS, and Serverless in all regions.

🚀 Amazon EMR 7.14 adds platform-wide enhancements across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, and upgrades key components including Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1. Iceberg materialized views refresh faster by using change data capture to limit file reads. EMR on EKS supports Spark Connect endpoints with token-based authentication and IPv6 clusters, while EMR Serverless increases Spark job storage from 200 GiB to 1 TiB. The release is available in all Regions where Amazon EMR is offered.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors unique to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus X2i. They target memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA, and are offered in 14 sizes including bare metal options.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. These high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs to boost compute, storage throughput, and latency consistency versus prior I3en instances. I7ie offers up to 120TB local NVMe, higher vCPU and memory counts, and up to 100Gbps network and 60Gbps EBS bandwidth across nine sizes. They are aimed at large, I/O-intensive workloads that need fast, low-latency local storage.

🔔 AWS announced general availability of the new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon 6 processors and built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. T8i offers four sizes (nano, micro, small, medium) and delivers up to 30% better price performance versus T3, targeting low-to-moderate CPU workloads like small databases, CI/CD, microservices, and low-traffic websites. The instances provide higher compute, network, and EBS bandwidth, retain the T3 CPU credit model, and are available in multiple global regions with On-Demand and Spot purchase options.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. These memory-optimized instances use 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver higher performance for memory-intensive workloads compared to prior X1 instances. They are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

🔧 Amazon EC2 now allows AMI owners to declare which instance types are compatible or incompatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported, unsupported, or both lists, and any launch on a non-permitted type is blocked automatically. By default AMIs remain launchable on any instance type, so existing workflows are unchanged until restrictions are applied. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei, New Zealand) and AWS GovCloud (US‑East). These compute-optimized instances deliver up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3-based instances and are designed for HPC, batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based ML inference, and ad serving. Built on the AWS Nitro System, C8g instances offer enhanced performance and security, with up to 50 Gbps networking and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth across 12 sizes including bare metal.

🚀 Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Amazon EC2 G6e instances for Batch Transform, enabling high-performance offline inference on large datasets stored in Amazon S3. G6e instances feature up to eight NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs with 48 GB memory per GPU and third-generation AMD EPYC processors, improving throughput for GPU-intensive workloads. Use supported ml.g6e instance types when creating Batch Transform jobs via AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, or the CreateTransformJob API. G6e support is available in select AWS regions including US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances offer up to 25% better compute performance versus Graviton4-based C8g/C8gd, and deliver significant gains for databases, web apps, and ML workloads. Built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System and introducing the Nitro Isolation Engine, they provide mathematically assured workload isolation and local NVMe storage options on C9gd.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). These instances deliver up to 25% better performance versus Graviton4-based M8g/M8gd and up to 30% faster database performance. Built on the sixth-generation AWS Nitro System, they introduce the Nitro Isolation Engine for mathematically assured workload isolation. M9gd adds local NVMe SSD storage for low-latency needs and both instance families are available via standard purchasing options.