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Amazon EC2 C8gb Instances: EBS-Optimized, Graviton4

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 C8gb instances, EBS-optimized and powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. These sizes deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3 and offer up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and up to 200 Gbps networking. Available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), metal sizes are limited to N. Virginia. They support EFA on larger sizes to improve cluster latency for tightly coupled workloads. Customers can use these instances to scale high-performance file systems and throughput-focused workloads while optimizing cost.

Amazon EC2 X8g Instances Now in Asia Pacific (Sydney)

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8g instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and offering up to 60% better performance compared to Graviton2-based X2gd instances. X8g sizes provide up to 3 TiB memory and increased memory per vCPU, plus up to 50 Gbps networking and 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target memory‑intensive workloads such as EDA, in‑memory and relational databases, real‑time analytics, and large containerized applications.

Amazon EC2 C8gn Instances Expand to Ohio and UAE Regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gn instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in US East (Ohio) and Middle East (UAE). They deliver up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3-based C7gn instances, include 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and provide up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth. C8gn supports sizes up to 48xlarge (up to 384 GiB memory), up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on select large sizes to improve cluster latency and throughput.

Amazon EC2 X8g Instances Now Available in Stockholm

🚀 These instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region and provide up to 3 TiB of memory with increased memory per vCPU compared to prior Graviton4 instances. X8g targets memory-intensive workloads such as EDA, in-memory and relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-heavy containerized applications. They offer larger sizes (up to 48xlarge), enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps), EBS bandwidth up to 40 Gbps, and EFA/ENA Express support on larger sizes.

AWS Directory Service Managed Microsoft AD Now in NZ

📢 AWS has announced that AWS Managed Microsoft AD and AD Connector are now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and helps reduce the operational burden of running AD infrastructure in AWS while enabling domain join for EC2, containers, and Kubernetes. AD Connector acts as a proxy to let AWS services use existing on-premises AD identities and group policies without provisioning AD in the cloud.

AWS previews EC2 M9g instances powered by Graviton5

🚀 Amazon Web Services today previewed new Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS says M9g delivers up to 25% better compute performance and increased networking and EBS bandwidth versus Graviton4-based M8g, with up to 30–35% faster performance for databases, web applications, and machine learning. Built on the AWS Nitro System, M9g targets application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets, and is available in preview through a request process.

AWS Preview: EC2 M8azn Instances with 5GHz AMD CPUs

🚀 Starting today, AWS is previewing new general-purpose high-frequency Amazon EC2 M8azn instances powered by fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors that deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. These instances offer up to 2× the compute performance of M5zn and about 24% higher performance than M8a, and are built on the AWS Nitro System for secure, high-performance cloud delivery. They target workloads such as gaming, HFT, HPC, CI/CD, and simulation modeling; customers can request preview access.

Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers Now Generally Available

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers powered by the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72. The new UltraServers deliver 1.5× GPU memory and 1.5× FP4 compute (without sparsity) compared with P6e-GB200, enabling higher-context inference and improved throughput for large models. Ideal for reasoning, Agentic AI, and production inference; contact your AWS sales representative to get started.

AWS Announces Memory-Optimized EC2 X8aedz Instances

🚀 AWS has introduced Amazon EC2 X8aedz, a new memory-optimized instance family powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) that deliver up to 5 GHz maximum CPU frequency. X8aedz claims up to 2x higher compute performance and ~31% improved price-performance versus the prior X2iezn generation, combining high single-thread speed with a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio and local NVMe storage. Instances come in eight sizes (2–96 vCPUs, 64–3,072 GiB), include two bare-metal variants, and offer up to 8 TB of local NVMe SSD. They are available now in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On-Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

AWS announces compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) processors with up to 4.5 GHz frequency. AWS says C8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, 33% more memory bandwidth, and up to 57% faster GroovyJVM performance for Java workloads. The family includes 12 sizes, two bare-metal options, and is built on the AWS Nitro System for high-performance compute use cases such as HPC, batch processing, ad serving, multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. C8a instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

AWS previews EC2 C8ine instances for packet processing

🚀 Amazon Web Services previewed EC2 C8ine instances built on custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Granite Rapids) and the new Nitro v6 card. These instances are optimized for dataplane packet-processing workloads and can deliver up to 2.5× higher packet performance per vCPU versus prior C6in instances, with up to 2× higher internet-gateway bandwidth and up to 3× more ENIs. Targeted use cases include security virtual appliances, firewalls, load balancers, DDoS protection systems, and Telco 5G UPF. Preview access is available upon request through your AWS account team.

AWS GuardDuty extends threat detection for EC2 and ECS

🔍 AWS announced an update to GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection that adds multistage attack detection for Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon ECS clusters running on Fargate or EC2. The release introduces two critical findings — AttackSequence:EC2/CompromisedInstanceGroup and AttackSequence:ECS/CompromisedCluster — that group related events into a single, high-priority alert. Findings include a summary, event timeline, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and remediation guidance to speed response. Runtime Monitoring must be enabled for full coverage, and customers can try the feature free for 30 days.

Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers for Faster AI Training

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, powered by the new 3nm Trainium3 AI chip designed to deliver improved token economics for agentic, reasoning, and video-generation workloads. Each Trainium3 chip provides 2.52 PFLOPs (FP8), 144 GB of HBM3e, and 4.9 TB/s memory bandwidth, and servers can scale to 144 chips or to hundreds of thousands via EC2 UltraClusters. The platform includes the AWS Neuron SDK with native PyTorch integration so developers can train and deploy without changing model code, while performance engineers gain deeper access to tune kernels and optimize at scale.

Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances (Preview) for Apple builds

🚀 Amazon Web Services is previewing Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware to accelerate demanding Apple build and test workflows. These next-generation Mac instances target developers building for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M4 Max offers a 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 128 GB unified memory, plus Nitro-based networking and EBS bandwidth to support large-scale CI/CD and testing.

AWS launches EC2 X8aedz memory-optimized instances

🚀 AWS announced the new Amazon EC2 X8aedz memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin), offering up to 5 GHz peak CPU frequency and up to 2× compute performance versus X2iezn. Targeted at electronic design automation (EDA) workloads and relational databases that benefit from high single-thread performance and large memory footprints, X8aedz provides a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, local NVMe storage up to 8 TB, and sizes from 2 to 96 vCPUs including two bare-metal options. Instances are available in US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and can be purchased via On‑Demand, Spot, or Savings Plans.

AWS Transform AI Agent for Full-Stack Windows Modernization

🔧 AWS Transform expands its .NET modernization agent into a full-stack Windows modernization agent that automates transformation of .NET applications and Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and deploys them to containers on Amazon ECS or Amazon EC2 Linux. The agent scans SQL Server instances in EC2 or RDS and .NET code in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure Repos to produce editable modernization plans. It updates Entity Framework and ADO.NET data access code, migrates schemas and data, commits transformed code to a new branch, and supports supervised validation and deployment. Available in US East (N. Virginia).

AWS Lambda Managed Instances — Lambda on EC2, Graviton4

⚙️ AWS Lambda Managed Instances lets you run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while preserving Lambda's serverless operational model. AWS fully manages instance lifecycle tasks — including OS and runtime patching, routing, load balancing, and autoscaling — and exposes the broad EC2 instance catalog (including Graviton4 and high‑bandwidth networking). You attach functions to a configurable capacity provider via Console, APIs or IaC, and the service integrates with CloudWatch, X‑Ray and AWS Config; current Java, Node.js, Python and .NET runtimes are supported. The feature is now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Ireland).

AWS previews MCP Server for AI agents across AWS ecosystem

🔧 The AWS MCP Server is now in preview and offers a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface that consolidates the prior AWS API MCP and AWS Knowledge servers into a single endpoint. It enables AI agents and AI-native IDEs to access AWS documentation, generate and execute calls to over 15,000 APIs, and follow pre-built Agent SOPs to perform multi-step tasks. Authentication and authorization use AWS IAM, and audit logging is provided via CloudTrail; the service is available at no additional cost in US East (N. Virginia), with customers paying only for resources and data transfer.

AWS Glue: Zero-ETL Replication for Self-Managed Databases

🔁AWS Glue now supports zero-ETL for self-managed database sources, enabling no-code replication from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL hosted on-premises or on EC2 to Amazon Redshift. The feature auto-creates ongoing integrations to simplify setup, reduce operational overhead, and eliminate much of the engineering work previously required to build ingestion pipelines. It is available in multiple AWS Regions and aims to save teams weeks of engineering effort.

Amazon EC2 Introduces Interruptible Capacity Reservations

🔁 Amazon EC2 now offers interruptible On‑Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs), allowing reservation owners to temporarily make unused reserved capacity available to other internal workloads while retaining the ability to reclaim it. Consumers using interruptible ODCRs receive an interruption notice to allow graceful shutdown or checkpointing. The capability targets flexible, fault‑tolerant tasks such as batch processing, data analysis, and machine learning training, is available at no additional cost, and CloudFormation support is coming soon.