All news with #aws ec2 tag

🔒 Researchers report an AWS EC2 instance acting as a LiteLLM proxy for Amazon Bedrock was compromised and used to deploy XMRig cryptomining malware. The intrusion highlights risk from AI gateways that centralize identities, permissions, and model access, making them high-value targets. Analysts observed SSH exposure, probable brute-force attempts, and suspicious IAM activity tied to model enumeration and persistence efforts. Darktrace assisted in timely detection and containment while urging tighter controls and telemetry correlation.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances use custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and provide 12TiB of DDR5 memory to support large in-memory workloads. The instances deliver 896 vCPUs, up to 100Gbps EBS and network bandwidth, and support ENA Express, targeting mission-critical databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors exclusive to AWS and include the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 43% higher performance than prior C6in instances. C8ine is optimized for security and network virtual appliances and delivers substantially improved packet performance and network throughput. They are offered On-Demand and via Savings Plans and join availability in other AWS regions.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and are SAP-certified, offering up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory (up to 6TB) and 3.3x more memory bandwidth versus prior X2i instances. They target memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, large databases, analytics, and EDA, and come in 14 sizes including bare metal options. Purchase options include Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔒 Amazon EC2 now supports AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization‑Secure Nested Paging (SEV‑SNP) on Dedicated Hosts, allowing confidential computing workloads to run on physical servers dedicated to a single customer. Customers can allocate a Dedicated Host with SEV‑SNP enabled and launch compliant instances while retaining control over instance placement and host affinity. The host is provisioned with AMD security firmware at allocation to keep confidential environments current. Dedicated Host SEV‑SNP is available in all AWS commercial Regions with AMD instances.

🔧 Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types across all commercial regions. Built on the AWS Nitro System, the feature exposes nanosecond precision hardware timestamps from reference clocks in Nitro, enabling ordered event logging, one-way latency measurement, and faster distributed transactions. Customers enable this by creating a Precision Time Placement Group (PTPG) to launch instances with PHC enabled and can associate PTPGs with Cluster Placement Groups for combined low-latency and precise timing benefits.

🔔 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces a new reservations-then-balanced Availability Zone distribution strategy that prioritizes launching instances into your capacity reservations before distributing remaining capacity across AZs. You can configure it in the AvailabilityZoneDistribution of your Auto Scaling group and target reservations by Capacity Reservation Group ARN or individual Capacity Reservation IDs. The feature is available today in all AWS commercial Regions at no extra charge beyond standard EC2 pricing for reservations, On-Demand, and Spot instances.

🔔 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand, New Zealand), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Europe (Milan), and AWS Canada West (Calgary). These instances use AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads such as databases and real-time analytics. Built on the AWS Nitro System, R8g offers larger sizes, enhanced networking, and improved EBS bandwidth for demanding applications.

🚀Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with up to 3.7 GHz, C7a delivers up to 50% higher performance than C6a and adds new capabilities like AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. These instances use DDR5 memory for 2.25x more memory bandwidth, come in 12 sizes including bare-metal, and support up to 128 EBS attachments. C7a instances run on the AWS Nitro System and are available via On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8a general-purpose instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance than M7a. Instances provide 45% more memory bandwidth, SAP certification, 12 sizes including 2 bare metal, and are suitable for high-throughput workloads.

⚙️ Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) regions. These instances use custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 43% higher performance over prior C6in instances. C8in supports up to 384 vCPUs and provides 600 Gbps network bandwidth, suited for network-intensive workloads. Availability spans multiple regions and purchasing models including Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔒 Amazon EC2 now supports AMI watermarks that embed custom identifiers into private AMIs and persist through copies and derived AMIs. Watermarks include metadata such as AMI ID, owner ID, region, and timestamps to support provenance and tracking. You can apply watermarks via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or EC2 Image Builder. Watermarks integrate with Allowed AMIs and Declarative Policies to enforce AMI usage across organizations.

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These 7th-generation U7i instances use custom Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs and provide 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, 896 vCPUs, up to 200 Gbps network, and 100 Gbps EBS bandwidth to accelerate in-memory workloads. U7i offers up to 45% better price performance over prior U-1 instances and is suited for mission-critical databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

📢 AWS today announced general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing infrastructure closer to end users. The Hanoi Local Zone supports Amazon EC2 with C7i, M7i, and R7i instances, Amazon S3 including One Zone-IA, and Amazon EBS with Local Snapshots and multiple volume types. Customers can enable the zone (ap-southeast-1-han-1a) via AWS Global View or the ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API.

🚀 Today AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 delivers up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance versus G6 and supports AI inference, real-time cinematic graphics, game streaming, and large-scale data analytics. Instances offer up to 8 GPUs with 32 GB each, custom Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, and up to 700 Gbps EFA; available now in US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon) as On-Demand, Savings Plans, or Spot.

🚀 AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers via EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and associate them with a PCS compute node group using an EC2 launch template, while PCS configures Slurm topology automatically. P6e-GB200 offers up to 72 GPUs, 360 petaflops FP8 (no sparsity), and 13.4 TB HBM3e; P6e-GB300 delivers 1.5x GPU memory and FP4 compute versus the GB200. PCS remains a managed Slurm-based service that simplifies building elastic HPC environments with integrated compute, storage, networking, visualization, managed updates, and observability.

🖥️ Starting today, AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to additional Intel-based instance families and US GovCloud regions. The feature is now available on C7i, R7i, M7i and their "-id" and "-flex" variants, plus I7i, C8i-flex, R8i-flex, M8i-flex and X8i, complementing earlier C8i, M8i and R8i support. US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West) now also support nested virtualization in addition to all commercial regions. Customers can run KVM or Hyper-V inside EC2 instances for emulation, simulation, or WSL workloads.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces memory-optimized X2m instances based on EC2 X2iedn. These instances deliver up to 64 vCPUs, 4 TB memory, 256K IOPS and a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio while providing the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature to reduce SQL Server licensing by 50% or more for memory-intensive workloads. X2m instances are available via the RDS Console, AWS SDK, or CLI, support On-Demand pricing and qualify for the AWS Database Savings Plan; refer to Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for specifics.

🚀Starting today, Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. These instances deliver up to 2x performance versus P5en for AI training and inference and include 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory. They offer a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth, 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, and up to 3.2 Tbps of EFAv4 networking, powered by the AWS Nitro System.

🔔 AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and ENIs. This enables consistent cost allocation, enforcement of service control policies, and compliance across resources provisioned by LMI. Configure the PropagateTags setting via CreateCapacityProvider or UpdateCapacityProvider in Explicit mode and provide key-value pairs; the feature is available in all commercial Regions where LMI is GA.