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🌐 Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint now supports IPv6 connectivity. Customers can configure endpoints as dual-stack or IPv6-only to connect to instances with IPv6 addresses and continue using SSH and RDP without public IPv4 addresses. The capability is available in all AWS Commercial Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions and works via the AWS Console, AWS CLI, and standard SSH/RDP clients. It maintains backward compatibility with existing IPv4 deployments.

📡 Amazon GameLift Streams now supports IPv6 for streaming applications hosted on Windows-based stream groups, enabling dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for streamed Windows applications. This enhancement gives customers additional addressing options and helps meet IPv6 compliance requirements while preserving compatibility with existing IPv4 deployments. Note that Linux runtime applications will continue to require IPv4 for streaming; the capability is available in all AWS Regions where GameLift Streams is offered.

🔒 Customers can now attach boot and data volumes backed by Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 arrays to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Outposts, with support for authenticated and encrypted volumes. This extends external block volume support alongside NetApp and Pure Storage, enabling use of on‑premises enterprise arrays for OS boot volumes and high‑performance data volumes. AWS provides automation scripts via AWS Samples and access through the Console or CLI; third‑party integration is available on Outposts 2U servers and racks at no additional charge.

🚀Today AWS announced that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions. Amazon EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation directly within your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. You can deploy a complete VCF environment in hours using the guided configuration workflow or the AWS CLI with automated deployment, enabling faster migrations, lower latency for end users, and improved compliance and resiliency.

⚙️ AWS today introduced Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a fully managed compute option that provisions, configures, and operates Amazon EC2 instances on behalf of customers to reduce infrastructure overhead. You specify task requirements (vCPUs, memory, CPU architecture) or desired instance types and ECS automatically selects and manages optimal instances. The service dynamically scales capacity, optimizes task placement, and applies security patching on a 14-day cadence with support for scheduled EC2 event windows.

🌐 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (ASG) now supports IPv6, enabling dual‑stack (IPv4 and IPv6) configurations for Auto Scaling groups. IPv6 provides a vastly larger address space, letting you assign contiguous ranges to microservices and achieve near‑unlimited scale. Support is available in all commercial AWS regions (except New Zealand) and in GovCloud regions where ASG is offered. Configure networks and addressing via AWS documentation.

🔍Compute Optimizer now supports 99 additional Amazon EC2 instance types, including the latest Compute Optimized (C8gn, C8gd), General Purpose (M8i, M8i-flex, M8gd), Memory Optimized (R8i, R8i-flex, R8gd), and Storage Optimized (I8ge) families. This expansion helps customers identify additional savings and capture improved price-to-performance from newer instances without manual analysis. The update is available in all regions where Compute Optimizer operates except AWS GovCloud (US) and China, and can be accessed via Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK.

🚀 Amazon expanded availability of EC2 C8gn instances—powered by Graviton4—to Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Singapore), in addition to existing US Regions. C8gn delivers up to 30% better compute vs Graviton3-based C7gn, includes 6th-generation Nitro Cards, and offers up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. Instances scale to 48xlarge with up to 384 GiB memory and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and select sizes support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for lower-latency clusters optimized for network-intensive workloads.

🔒 Amazon EC2’s account-wide Allowed AMIs setting now supports four new parameters — marketplace codes, deprecation time, creation date, and AMI names — to tighten AMI discovery and usage controls. Previously limited to account IDs and owner aliases, administrators can now define additional criteria to block Marketplace images, filter out outdated AMIs, and enforce naming patterns. These parameters integrate with Declarative Policies and are available in all regions, including AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US), enabling centralized AMI governance across your organization.

🔒 AWS announced general availability of EC2 instance attestation in September 2025, enabling customers to cryptographically verify that only trusted software and configurations run on EC2 instances, including those with AI chips and GPUs. The feature uses NitroTPM and Attestable AMIs to create and compare cryptographic measurements of AMI contents. It integrates with AWS KMS so key operations can be restricted to instances that pass attestation. EC2 instance attestation is available in all AWS Commercial Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8gb instances are now generally available as EBS-optimized compute powered by AWS Graviton4. AWS reports up to 30% better compute performance versus Graviton3 and up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, delivering higher block storage throughput than same-sized Graviton4 counterparts. Sizes scale to 24xlarge (including a metal option) with up to 768 GiB memory and 200 Gbps networking; select large sizes support EFA. Initially available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon).

🚀 Amazon EC2 I8ge storage-optimized instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, I8ge delivers up to 60% better compute performance versus prior Graviton2-based storage-optimized instances and uses third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs for up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB with substantially lower latency and variability. Instances scale to 48xlarge (including metal), provide up to 1,536 GiB RAM, 120 TB local NVMe, and up to 300 Gbps networking, making them well suited for relational and non-relational databases, streaming databases, search and data analytics.

🔧 Amazon Web Services has added native support for EC2 Capacity Blocks in the Parallel Computing Service (PCS), enabling use of reserved EC2 instances directly within PCS Slurm clusters. This integration lets Capacity Blocks be associated with PCS compute node groups via an EC2 Launch Template, simplifying capacity planning for GPU‑based ML workloads. The feature is available in all Regions where both services are offered and aims to improve availability and predictability for cutting‑edge GPU jobs.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of high-performance, storage-optimized EC2 I7i instances in the South America (São Paulo) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these instances deliver up to 23% better compute and improved price performance versus I4i. I7i offers up to 45TB NVMe, lower latency, and enhanced real-time storage performance, with support for bare-metal sizes and up to 100Gbps networking for I/O-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads.

🚀 AWS today expanded availability of EC2 R8i and R8i‑flex instances to Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Singapore) and Europe (Frankfurt). These instances use custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS and deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5× more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations. R8i targets large, memory‑intensive workloads with 13 sizes (including two bare‑metal and a new 96xlarge) and SAP certification at 142,100 aSAPS, while R8i‑flex offers common memory‑optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for cost-efficient right‑sizing.

🚀 AWS has made the new Amazon EC2 R8gn instances generally available, built on AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3. R8gn instances include 6th generation Nitro Cards and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth—the highest among network-optimized EC2 instances—and sizes up to 48xlarge with metal options. They provide up to 1,536 GiB memory, up to 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) on select large and metal sizes for lower latency cluster performance.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 I8g storage-optimized instances in the US East (Ohio) region. Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation Nitro SSDs, I8g delivers up to 60% better compute and up to 65% improved real-time storage performance per TB, with lower I/O latency and variability. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances target I/O-intensive, low-latency workloads such as transactional databases, real-time analytics and AI pre-processing. Ten sizes, including a metal option, provide up to 45 TB local NVMe storage and high network and EBS bandwidth.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Thailand). These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances use 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System to deliver up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth—about 2x the bandwidth of comparable fifth-generation instances. C6in offers up to 128 vCPUs across 10 sizes (including a bare metal option), up to 100 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS, with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) supported on 32xlarge and metal sizes.

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and AWS Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, R8g delivers up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory‑intensive workloads. The family includes 12 sizes (two bare‑metal options), scales up to 48xlarge with 1.5 TB RAM, and offers up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and 40 Gbps to Amazon EBS. AWS recommends the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help migrate workloads.

🔍 Amazon EC2 today announced AMI Usage, a new capability to track AMI consumption across AWS accounts and resources. It generates reports listing accounts that use your AMIs in EC2 instances and launch templates and shows utilization across instances, launch templates, Image Builder recipes, and SSM parameters. This reduces the need for custom scripts, helps safely manage AMI deregistrations, and supports cost optimization. AMI Usage is available at no additional cost in all AWS regions, including China and GovCloud.