All news with #aws ec2 tag

🚀 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.

🚀 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 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 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 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.

🚀 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.

🔁 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.

🔐 Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports an encryption attribute for Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection (ABIS). You can set RequireEncryptionInTransit in InstanceRequirements to limit launches to instance types that support encryption-in-transit, addressing compliance with VPC Encryption Controls in enforced mode. The GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements (GITFIR) API previews eligible instance types. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions. To start, set RequireEncryptionInTransit=true when calling CreateFleet or GITFIR.

🚀 Amazon ECS Managed Instances is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West) Regions, bringing a fully managed EC2 compute option to government-focused accounts. Managed Instances dynamically scales and optimizes EC2 capacity, supports task-level requirements (vCPU, memory, CPU architecture), and lets you select instance families including GPU, network-optimized, and burstable types. AWS initiates security patching every 14 days; management fees apply in addition to EC2 costs.

🚀 Amazon has expanded EC2 Image Builder with flexible AMI distribution features that let you distribute existing AMIs, retry failed distributions, and create custom distribution workflows. Distribution workflows introduce sequential steps—such as AMI copies, wait-for-action checkpoints, and attribute modifications—to support staged rollouts and approval gates with the same step-level visibility as build and test workflows. These capabilities work across regions and accounts and are available at no extra cost.

🚀 Amazon EC2 now provides License-Included (LI) AMIs for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling fast deployment of the latest SQL Server release on Windows EC2 instances. These managed images are created and maintained by AWS and default to TLS 1.3 for improved security and performance. AMIs include preinstalled management tools such as AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CloudFormation, plus network and storage drivers. The images are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), simplifying provisioning and lifecycle management for enterprise workloads.

🖥️ Amazon Web Services now publishes Apple macOS Tahoe (v26) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for EC2 Mac instances, enabling developers to build and test with Xcode 26 and the latest Apple platform SDKs. These AMIs run on Apple silicon EC2 Mac instances and are backed by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for stable, high-performance storage. Images include the AWS CLI, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew with the AWS Homebrew Tap. macOS Tahoe AMIs are available in all AWS regions that offer Apple silicon Mac instances and can be launched via the Console, CLI, or API.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) exclusive to AWS. They deliver up to 15% better performance over comparable Intel-based offerings and up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i. C7i offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge, two bare-metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators and supports AMX and up to 128 EBS volumes to scale data-intensive workloads.

🔍 Amazon EC2 now publishes AMI ancestry, enabling you to trace an AMI’s full lineage from its immediate parent back to the root across regions. This built‑in visibility replaces manual tagging and cross‑region record‑keeping, simplifying compliance audits and incident response. AMI ancestry is accessible via the AWS CLI, SDKs, and Console at no additional cost. It helps quickly identify all derived AMIs when a vulnerability is discovered in an ancestor, improving remediation speed and reducing operational risk.

🛡️ EC2 Auto Scaling introduces an instance lifecycle policy that lets you retain instances when lifecycle hooks fail or time out, enabling manual intervention for graceful shutdowns. Previously, the default continue or abandon outcomes both resulted in instance termination after a timeout; the new policy adds configurable retention triggers to keep instances in a retained state. This is particularly helpful for stateful applications that need to save local data, close database connections, deregister from discovery, or remove sensitive credentials before termination. The feature is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

⚡ Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and US West (N. California). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5× the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and about 20% higher performance than R7i. R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that underutilize CPU; R8i includes 13 sizes, two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge, and is SAP-certified at 142,100 aSAPS. Available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances: the u7in-16tb.224xlarge (16TiB) is now in AWS Europe (Ireland); u7i-12tb.224xlarge (12TiB) is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad); and u7i-8tb.112xlarge (8TiB) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Powered by custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, these instances provide high vCPU counts (up to 896), ENA Express support, up to 100Gbps EBS performance and up to 200Gbps networking on the 16TiB size, making them suited for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔁 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces the ReplaceRootVolume strategy for instance refresh, allowing replacement of an instance's root Amazon EBS volume without stopping or terminating the instance. The feature preserves attachments and metadata (network interfaces, elastic IPs) and reduces operational complexity for OS-level updates, patching, and recovery from corrupted root volumes. It is particularly valuable for specialized instance types such as Mac and GPU instances and for stateful applications where data and attachments must be preserved. ReplaceRootVolume is available in select regions at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon EC2 M7i instances in the Europe (Zurich) region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) available only on AWS. M7i delivers up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors and up to 15% improved price-performance versus M6i. Instances scale to 48xlarge and include two bare-metal sizes with built-in Intel accelerators that offload data operations and optimize CPU-bound workloads.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs. The p6-b300.48xlarge delivers eight GPUs, 2.1 TB of high-bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. It targets training and deploying trillion-parameter foundation models and LLMs, offering higher memory, compute, and networking versus P6-B200.