All news with #aws ec2 tag

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, a new family of memory-optimized instances built on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. X8i offers up to 43% higher overall performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6 TB) and 3.4x greater memory bandwidth compared to prior X2i instances. Designed for SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA, X8i is SAP-certified and available in 14 sizes including two bare-metal options. Instances are initially available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Frankfurt) and can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand or Spot.

🚀 Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code named Turin) and deliver the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud — 5 GHz. Built on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards, X8aedz targets EDA workloads and relational databases that need high single-thread performance and large memory capacity, pairing 5 GHz CPUs with local NVMe for faster memory-intensive processing.

🚀 AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada West (Calgary), and Europe (Paris). Designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads, these high-density, storage-optimized instances use 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd gen AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver higher compute performance, lower storage I/O latency, and increased local NVMe capacity up to 120TB. They come in nine sizes with up to 100 Gbps networking and significant EBS bandwidth, targeting low-latency, high-throughput applications.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i‑flex instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, these instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x higher memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based instances. AWS reports up to 20% higher general performance versus the C7i family, with workload-specific gains — up to 60% for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached. C8i‑flex targets common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient compute, while C8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal and a new 96xlarge for memory‑intensive or continuous high‑CPU workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region to support graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads. These instances scale to eight A10G GPUs with 2nd-generation AMD EPYC processors, up to 192 vCPUs, 100 Gbps networking and 7.6 TB of NVMe local storage across eight size options. Customers can tune performance with NVIDIA drivers for compute, gaming, or workstation workloads and purchase capacity as On-Demand or Reserved Instances to meet cost and operational needs.

📊 AWS has added Spot interruption metrics to EC2 Capacity Manager, giving cloud teams clearer visibility into Spot instance behavior across accounts, regions, and availability zones. The feature introduces three metrics—Spot Usage Total Count, Spot Total Interruptions, and Spot Interruption Rate—showing how many Spot instances or vCPUs ran, how many were interrupted, and the interruption percentage. This capability is enabled by default in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost.

🔁 Amazon EC2 now accepts Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) as a parameter in its APIs, enabling creation and management of instances, volumes, subnets and other resources using consistent, static zone identifiers. AZ IDs map to the same physical location across all AWS accounts, removing the need to reconcile per-account AZ names. This capability covers launch templates, fleets, reserved instances, volumes, capacity reservations, VPC endpoints, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, instance connect and more, and is available in all regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched the compute-optimized EC2 C8a instances in the Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors running up to 4.5 GHz, C8a offers up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance versus C7a, plus 33% greater memory bandwidth. Available in 12 sizes (including two bare-metal options), they target high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads and support Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot purchasing.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo). These memory-optimized instances run on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient memory-heavy applications. Instances are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

⚠️ Amazon's GuardDuty team is tracking an ongoing cryptomining campaign that uses compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to abuse EC2 and ECS resources. The attacker deployed an yenik65958/secret Docker Hub image containing the SBRMiner-MULTI miner and configured large ECS tasks and auto-scaling EC2 groups to maximize mining. The actor also enabled instance termination protection to hinder remediation; Amazon has removed the malicious image, alerted affected customers, and recommends rotating compromised IAM credentials while following GuardDuty mitigation guidance.

🚀 AWS announced the general availability of the new Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances powered by AWS Graviton4. M8gn targets network‑intensive workloads and provides up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth with 6th‑generation Nitro Cards, while M8gb focuses on high block‑storage throughput with up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth. Both families offer up to 768 GiB of memory, large instance sizes, and EFA support on selected sizes; initial availability is in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by Graviton4 processors, C8g delivers up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offers up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than prior C7g sizes. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances provide enhanced performance, security, and networking (up to 50 Gbps) for compute‑intensive workloads. Twelve sizes, including two bare‑metal options, support HPC, gaming, video encoding, CPU inference, and analytics.

⚡Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces the new LaunchInstances API, a synchronous operation that provides immediate feedback on capacity availability when provisioning instances inside an Auto Scaling group. Customers can specify placement overrides for any Availability Zone or subnet to control where capacity is launched. The call returns real-time insight so operators can implement alternative strategies if capacity is constrained, and it also supports optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, and R8g instances to AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East). These instances run on AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and larger instance sizes with up to 3x vCPUs and memory. Enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth support high-throughput workloads.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These memory-optimized instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and offer larger sizes—up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory. R8g provides up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and is built on the AWS Nitro System to improve performance and platform-level security; it is ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand, Jakarta, Melbourne) and AWS Middle East (UAE) regions. Powered by AWS Graviton4, they deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances and offer larger sizes with up to 3× more vCPUs and memory than M7g. M8g provides up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth across 12 instance sizes, including two bare metal options. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these general-purpose instances target application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors built exclusively for AWS. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth compared with previous Intel-based EC2 generations, and up to 20% higher performance versus C7i instances. AWS highlights workload-specific improvements — up to 60% faster for NGINX, 40% for deep learning recommendation models, and 35% for Memcached — and positions C8i-flex for many compute-intensive, partially utilized workloads while C8i targets memory-intensive, sustained-CPU use with sizes up to a new 96xlarge and two bare-metal variants. Instances can be purchased On-Demand, via Savings Plans, or Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of EC2 M8i instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore) and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS-exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, M8i offers up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i. These SAP-certified general purpose instances include 13 sizes, two bare-metal options, and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched EC2 M8i-flex instances in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x the memory bandwidth versus previous-generation Intel-based instances. Compared with M7i-flex, M8i-flex delivers up to 20% higher performance overall and substantially larger gains for targeted workloads such as PostgreSQL, NGINX web serving, and AI recommendation models. They are offered in common general-purpose sizes from large to 16xlarge and are positioned as a first choice for applications that do not fully utilize all compute resources.

🚀 Amazon EC2 M7a instances are now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors with up to 3.7 GHz, these general-purpose instances deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. M7a is offered across purchase models (Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, Spot) and can be launched via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs. With London added, M7a is available in multiple global regions including US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and several other European regions.