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AWS Expands EC2 G6f NVIDIA L4 GPU Instances to More Regions

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of EC2 G6f instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Seoul), improving access for graphics and visualization workloads. G6f instances support GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory, enabling finer-grained right-sizing and cost savings compared to single‑GPU options. Instances are offered in multiple sizes paired with third‑generation AMD EPYC processors, and are purchasable as On‑Demand, Spot, or via Savings Plans; customers should use NVIDIA GRID driver 18.4 or later to launch these instances.

Amazon DCV Adds Support for EC2 Mac Apple silicon instances

🖥️ AWS announced Amazon DCV support for EC2 Mac instances powered by Apple silicon, enabling high-performance remote desktop access to macOS workloads in the cloud. Users can connect from Windows, Linux, macOS, or web clients and benefit from 4K resolution, multi-monitor support, and smooth 60 FPS streaming. Productivity features include time zone redirection and audio output, and the offering is available in all Regions that provide EC2 Mac instances.

Amazon EC2 F2 FPGA Instances Expand to Four Regions

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 F2 instances — the second-generation FPGA-powered instances featuring an FPGA with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — are available in four additional regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Seoul), and Canada (Central). F2 delivers substantial hardware upgrades over F1, including up to 192 vCPUs, 2 TB system memory, 7.6 TiB SSD, and 100 Gbps networking. These instances target genomics, multimedia processing, big data, and network acceleration workloads and can be purchased On-Demand or via Savings Plans.

AWS Adds CUR 2.0 Detail for EC2 Capacity Reservations

🔍 AWS has extended the Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) to surface hourly, resource-level billing information for capacity reservations including EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservation (ODCR) and EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. CUR 2.0 now tags capacity-related line items as Reserved, Used, or Unused, enabling precise coverage and utilization calculations. The enhancement helps identify idle reservations and attribute reservation costs to resource owners for cost optimization.

Amazon EC2 U7i-6tb High Memory Instances in Europe

⚙️ Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6tb instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm and Ireland). The u7i-6tb provides 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs, with up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network bandwidth and support for ENA Express. Powered by custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), these instances target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id Instances Expand Regions Now

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 C6id instances available in Europe (Milan) and R6id instances available in Africa (Cape Town). Powered by 3rd-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors (3.5 GHz all-core turbo) and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD, these Nitro-based instances deliver high compute, memory access, and low-latency storage. Use cases include media processing, distributed in-memory caches, in-memory databases, data logging, and real-time analytics. Customers can purchase capacity via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot, and provision using the AWS CLI and SDKs.

AWS expands Graviton4 EC2 C8gd, M8gd, R8gd regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London) and Canada (Central), while M8gd and R8gd sizes have expanded to South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (London), respectively. Powered by AWS Graviton4, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offer up to 11.4 TB NVMe local storage and EFA on select sizes. Customers can also adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% via instance bandwidth weighting.

Amazon EC2 M8a Instances Now in N. Virginia & Tokyo

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a, and 45% more memory bandwidth. They show workload gains up to 60% for GroovyJVM and 39% for Cassandra, are SAP-certified, come in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and run on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards. Customers can purchase M8a via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, or Spot.

AWS Adds EC2 I7i Storage-Optimized Instances in Regions

⚡ AWS announced that high-performance, storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Canada (Central) regions. Powered by 5th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and 3rd-gen AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and substantial NVMe storage improvements over I4i. Instances support torn-write prevention, real-time NVMe performance statistics, and sizes up to 48xlarge plus bare metal options.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Now in GovCloud

🚀 Amazon Web Services has added High Memory U7i instances to AWS GovCloud, offering 12TiB (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) and 16TiB (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) in GovCloud (US-West) and 24TiB (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) in GovCloud (US-East). These 7th‑generation instances use custom 4th‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, provide 896 vCPUs and DDR5 memory, and support ENA Express. The u7i-12tb delivers up to 100Gbps network and EBS throughput while the 16tb and 24tb variants deliver up to 200Gbps, making them well suited for mission‑critical in‑memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Amazon EVS Expanded to Mumbai, Sydney, Canada, Paris

🚀 Amazon has expanded Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) to all availability zones in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 bare‑metal instances powered by AWS Nitro, and can be deployed via a step‑by‑step workflow or the AWS CLI in hours. The expansion delivers lower latency, improved data‑residency options, and additional resiliency and high‑availability choices for VMware workloads.

CloudWatch Application Signals Now in AWS GovCloud

🔒 CloudWatch Application Signals is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending automated application observability to government and regulated workloads. The service automatically collects telemetry from Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Lambda to provide real-time health, dependency visualization and anomaly detection. By eliminating manual instrumentation, it helps teams meet compliance and monitoring requirements while improving incident detection and resolution. For pricing and setup, consult the CloudWatch pricing page and Application Signals documentation.

AWS Deadline Cloud Adds 6th–8th Gen EC2 Instances Now

🚀 Deadline Cloud now supports an expanded set of EC2 instance families — including C7i, C7a, M7i, M7a, R7a, R7i, M8a, M8i and R8i — plus additional 6th-generation types that were previously unavailable. The update broadens compute-optimized, general-purpose and memory-optimized options for visual effects and animation rendering workloads. Studios can better right-size resources for tasks ranging from compute-heavy simulations to memory-intensive scene processing, improving performance and cost-efficiency in the Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

Amazon ECS: Managed EBS Permissions for Non-Root Containers

🔐 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon EBS volumes to containers running as non-root users. ECS automatically sets file system permissions on the attached EBS volume so non-root processes can securely read and write while preserving root ownership. This removes the need for manual chown/chmod or custom entrypoint scripts, simplifying security-first container deployments. The capability is available across all AWS Regions for EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Cross-Account VPC Origins Support

🔒 Amazon announced that CloudFront now supports cross-account VPC origins, enabling distributions to reach ALB, NLB, and EC2 origins inside private subnets across different AWS accounts. Customers can grant access via AWS RAM, including across Organizations and OUs, removing the need to place origins in public subnets. The capability is available in AWS Commercial Regions at no extra charge and is designed to simplify security and multi-account operations.

AWS Launches Memory-Optimized EC2 R8a Instances, GA

🧠 AWS has announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 R8a memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz. R8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance and 45% more memory bandwidth versus R7a. Available in 12 sizes (including 2 bare metal) and SAP-certified, R8a targets latency-sensitive, memory-intensive workloads and supports Savings Plans, On-Demand and Spot purchasing.

AWS Launch Wizard: SQL Server Developer Edition Deployments

🛠️ AWS Launch Wizard now provides a guided workflow to size, configure, and deploy Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. The capability simplifies provisioning cost-effective, full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2 and is aimed at developers building non-production and test database environments. It supports customers migrating non-production databases from SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions to reduce licensing costs while preserving feature parity, and is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

EC2 Auto Scaling: Warm Pools Now Support Mixed Instances

🚀 Starting today, AWS lets you add warm pools to EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that use mixed instances policies. Warm pools maintain a set of pre-initialized EC2 instances that can rapidly serve traffic, reducing scale‑out latency for workloads with lengthy initialization tasks like large disk writes or complex scripts. The capability supports manual instance type lists and attribute-based selection, and is available via the Console, SDKs, and CLI in all public AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US). Combining warm pools with instance type flexibility helps ASGs scale to their maximum size quickly while improving availability across multiple instance types.

AWS Config Adds 52 New Resource Types Across Key Services

🔔 AWS Config now supports 52 additional AWS resource types across services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. With recording for all resource types enabled, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these additions and they are available to Config rules and aggregators. You can monitor the new types in all Regions where supported, expanding discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage.

CloudWatch Agent Adds NVMe Local Volume Performance Metrics

📈 The Amazon CloudWatch agent can now collect detailed performance metrics for NVMe local volumes attached to EC2 instances, including queue depths, I/O sizes, and device utilization. These metrics mirror the detailed statistics available for EBS volumes, enabling a consistent monitoring experience across storage types. You can create CloudWatch dashboards, set alarms, and analyze trends for NVMe-based instance store volumes, and the capability is available for all local NVMe volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.